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...that was changed last week. The Robin Moor sinking, and the defiant statement with which Nazi officials followed it up, made it clear that Axis reprisals were coming. So Franklin Roosevelt took the step...
...clock in the morning, a grey dawn on a grey sea, when the Robin Moor first saw the signal lights blinking. They signaled: "Send over a boat." The captain came up on the bridge in his pajamas. A boat was lowered and four seamen at the oars rowed the chief officer through the lifting dawn toward the long, low shape awash in the water, a mile and a half away...
...Robin Moor's mate clambered aboard, met her captain waiting on the deck. Said the German, "Where are your papers?" The mate said: "You didn't ask me to bring them." Then the two officers disappeared down the hatch. Ten minutes later the mate was back. Said he: "They're going to let us have...
According to unofficial reports reaching the State Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...
...dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms and a sun porch) just once a day, to swim at 6 a.m. in The Broad-moor's indoor pool...