Word: panay
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...Spotless Panay...
...issue of TIME, Dec. 27, you refer to the U. S. S. Panay as a grimy little gunboat. Certainly she was a small vessel, but never grimy...
Some three years I served in China, most of that time spent in duty with the Yangtze patrol, aboard the coal-burner Monocacy. Several times I have been aboard the Panay. There was not a cleaner ship in the U. S. Navy...
...ships of the Yangtze Patrol, the hull and superstructure of the Panay was white, the stacks orange. The ships are kept immaculately clean at all times. The paintwork is scrubbed so often the paint never becomes thick enough to require chipping...
...mass of the voters? Still, as in 1917, they are the most pacific group in the nation after months of interventionist propaganda. Can we rely on the President after his disregard of the neutrality laws, after his Chicago speech, after the tone of his representations to Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals in the Harvard Government Department? Can we count upon Congress to keep us out of war when we have just seen it bow before the Administration's opposition to the Ludlow Amendment...