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...Tokyo made a prodigious fuss about the captivity, trial and punishment of U.S. flyers who fell into Japanese hands after the bombing of Tpkyo. With the caution accorded only to vital international questions, Secretary Stimson and the U.S. State Department left the question of retaliation for future settlement. ^ Ottawa reacted with equal sensitivity to news about the handling of German prisoners in Canada...
...Dieppe prisoners had been chained by the Germans). The Canadian Government had evidently intended to suppress the story. When the story came out, the Canadian Government made a strong protest to the U.S. State Department. Though the protest seemed designed to discredit the substance of the story, actually Ottawa confirmed the fact that there had been a riot. TIME was roundly rebuked for certain inaccuracies...
...Dieppe story of Corporal Joseph A. Gregory, 42, as told to TIME Correspondent B. T. Richardson in Ottawa last week...
...Nazi submarine was still a formidable menace. The Canadian destroyer Ottawa went down with her captain, four other officers and 107 men. German torpedoes had also bagged two other Canadian warships (a patrol vessel and a corvette) since Sept. 14. The U.S. Navy's Secretary Knox summarized the situation this week: "There can be no question but that today the submarine problem is the major problem confronting us-one which is closely tied in with that of an eventual second front in Europe . . . and with the supplying of Russia in order to keep her armies in the field...
...harbor a royal family this week: Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Princess Juliana (who has taken a house in Lee for the summer) and her daughters, Princesses Beatrix, 4, and Irene, 2. Last week 61-year-old Wilhelmina re-rejoined her daughter and granddaughters in Ottawa after a two-year separation. In the offing before she returns: a visit with the Roosevelts...