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...Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China in return for peace in the Pacific...
This week Adolf Hitler took up Franklin Roosevelt's challenge. President Roosevelt had declared the North Atlantic around Iceland "defensive waters." The President had announced that U.S. war ships would protect all shipping in those waters, shoot on sight any Nazi or Italian raider brash enough to invade them. The President had said: "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike . . . you crush...
...defiance, the rattlesnake struck. To Washington came the news that the 6,850-ton Pink Star, owned by the U.S. Government, flying the flag of Panama, had been sunk off Iceland in the same waters where a Nazi submarine had tried to torpedo the destroyer Greer and a raider had sent the merchantman Sessa to the bottom...
Soon in this new undeclared war a U.S. warship may sink or capture a Nazi sea or surface raider. And soon, if more U.S. merchantmen are sunk, the President must ask that merchant ships be armed. The Neutrality Act now forbids their carrying any arms beyond officers' pistols, but at the White House this week the President discussed with his Congressional advisers the advisability of asking Congress for a repeal of this section of the Act. Although no decisions were reached, this conference foreshadowed events to come. Eventually the Neutrality Act must be whittled down to the size...
...rope, and Photographer Scherman asked whether he could sign for Murphy and remove his wallet and passport for him. The examining officer, a tall, smiling lieutenant who spoke perfect English, nodded. The films stayed in Murphy's pajama pockets -even while he was being interviewed by the raider captain...