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Good, grey Captain Cordell Hull last week waited for a tide, backed the ship of U.S. relations with Vichyfrance off the pink granite rocks of St. Pierre & Miquelon, where it had almost gone to pieces...
...State Department issued an acid statement, calling the seizure of St. Pierre & Miquelon by "three so-called Free French ships ... an arbitrary action . . . without the prior knowledge or consent ... of the United States Government...
...inhabitants voted 56-to-1 to stick with the Free French. The plebiscite suggested a way out to Cordell Hull. Last week the State Department sent General de Gaulle a formal note, asking him to withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing the U.S. of a breach of faith...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
This rumor, in connection with the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (see p. 26), briefly produced great Allied confusion. But Vichy shortly called the reports "stupid lies...