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...Reykjavik. There the British Navy can take over and convoy Lend-Lease goods the rest of the way to Britain. If this takes place it will enable the British to concentrate their convoy vessels on the last leg of the haul. The inevitable result: much lower mortality among British merchantmen, much higher mortality among U-boats. Add to this the fact that Reykjavik can now serve as a base for U.S. naval patrols, particularly air patrols, as far as the coast of Norway, and the U.S. occupation of Iceland may eventually prove to be a turning point in the Battle...
...Senate approved and sent tot the White House a bill authorizing acquisition of 59 new Naval auxiliary ships, the House passed and sent tot he Senate a bill giving the Government broad powers to regulate the use of U. S. merchantmen in the current emergency, and Rep. Ed V. Izac, D., Calif., proposed that the U. S. Navy be used to patrol a new "shipping zone" between this country and Ireland...
...Axis warplanes came out to meet this formidable group. Next day's Italian papers ran ecstatic accounts of the engagement. Lavoro Fascista called it "A Black Day for the British Navy." The High Command claimed hits on two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy) had treated...
World War I turned the country's eyes seaward again. The U. S. found that it had a Navy, but only 81 ships in foreign trade (less than 500,000 tons). The fleet was dependent for coal and other supplies on foreign merchantmen that were either hostile or busy with other jobs. The U. S. had to pitch in and build itself a merchant fleet. It did. But by the time it got rolling at top speed, the war was over. By late 1918, U. S. merchantmen were being launched at the rate of one every three days...
...them. All the Commission is concerned with is to turn out ships, ships and more ships, and turn them out fast. The U. S. Navy is in the midst of a separate, all-out $4,000,000,000 building program. Neither program must block the other. The Navy needs merchantmen as auxiliaries, and it must get them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This...