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...Senate hearing was closed. But a full report of Colonel Knox's testimony (military secrets edited out) was promised the public this week. He was reported to have said: 1) no U.S. ship except the Robin Moor has been sunk in the Atlantic so far; 2) reports that 80 U.S. ships had been convoyed to Britain were wrong; 3) the U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger had not been damaged by a German bomb; 4) the Navy had no definite orders to shoot German warships on sight...
...which were working for us on double time on Sunday was a crew of carpenters summoned to Donnelley's plant for the packaging job! While we are talking about interesting things in this issue of TIME, perhaps I should also tell you that the pictures of the Robin Moor sinking are 100% exclusive with TIME...
They were taken by one of the crew of the Robin Moor...
What happened was that one of our National Defense editors had a friend on the Robin Moor. As soon as we saw his name on the list of survivors we telegraphed him for a special story, which was the basis of the Robin Moor report you saw in last week's issue of TIME...
...freezing of Axis funds, the closing of consulates, the institution of "patrols," the demand for reparations in the Robin Moor case are all spun out of Mr. Roosevelt's determination to get the United States into a shooting war. . . . The people want none of this war. They will have to state this strongly to stay the hand of the war crowd...