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...Senate hearing was closed. But a full report of Colonel Knox's testimony (military secrets edited out) was promised the public this week. He was reported to have said: 1) no U.S. ship except the Robin Moor has been sunk in the Atlantic so far; 2) reports that 80 U.S. ships had been convoyed to Britain were wrong; 3) the U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger had not been damaged by a German bomb; 4) the Navy had no definite orders to shoot German warships on sight...
They were taken by one of the crew of the Robin Moor...
What happened was that one of our National Defense editors had a friend on the Robin Moor. As soon as we saw his name on the list of survivors we telegraphed him for a special story, which was the basis of the Robin Moor report you saw in last week's issue of TIME...
...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...
...freezing of Axis funds, the closing of consulates, the institution of "patrols," the demand for reparations in the Robin Moor case are all spun out of Mr. Roosevelt's determination to get the United States into a shooting war. . . . The people want none of this war. They will have to state this strongly to stay the hand of the war crowd...