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...fact or propaganda, there was no doubt about the crippling effect of the U-boat campaign. The Associated Press's unofficial tally of Allied shipping losses in the western Atlantic alone reached 587 this week.* The success of anti-U-boat operations, about which the Navy kept mum, might be judged in part by the success the Japanese have had against U.S. submarines about which the Navy had more to say. Against a record of hits on more than 150 Jap vessels, only three U.S. submarines have been reported overdue and presumably lost...
Other newspapers were significantly mum on the matter, and the City was horrified at such bold Government interference with private enterprise. But uncompromising Vegetarian Cripps said coldly: "Inefficiency in management is as great a breach of duty to the country as absenteeism amongst the workers. The country cannot afford to and would not tolerate the waste of labor either by absenteeism or through bad direction or management...
This time, caught in a college prank, and an unsuccessful one at that, Editor Coghlan was mum...
Since then there has been what the M.E.W. calls "a steady trickle" of blockade runners reaching Europe with Jap-looted supplies from the Far East to trade for German machines and manufactured goods. The M.E.W. is worried, the Admiralty mum, about how successful blockade busters have been; one estimate puts the number of ships...
...down the flag of Vichy's Légion Française des Anciens Combattants. One escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...