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Yesterday there was thunder on the left. Instead of firing from the hip with its usual mimeographed salvo, the Harvard Young Communist League has this time taken careful aim at a weak point in the Rooseveltian armor and discharged a telling blast. The New Deal foreign policy is the target, and a tempting one it is, even though Mr. Glenn Frank, in his comprehensive anti-New Deal program of last week, passed it by, intentionally or otherwise. Thus beset on two flanks at once, the New Deal will find its leftist critics the hardest to answer. Mr. Roosevelt, when...
...between the Army and R. A. F., so is there friction between R. A. F. and the Royal Navy. Last week Admiral Sir Roger Keyes let go in the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post a salvo at R. A. F.'s general failure to understand and assist the Navy in its problems. In particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip...
...Britons, directed from the Exeter by Commodore Henry H. Harwood, Commander of the South American Division of the Royal Navy since 1936, was one the Italians have developed: Using curtains of smoke, the cruisers drove through from behind, showed themselves just long enough to get off a salvo, and then plunged back into the screen. This meant that Spee never knew where to look for trouble, and when it came, had to react quickly...
...Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted the electric ammunition hoists; a fourth tore away the bridge and wireless room. The second raider circled...
Only a few hours after Russia hurled her bombers against Finland, the Young Communist League yesterday fired a mimeographed salvo at one of America's softest spots, our sentiments toward Finland. In justifying Russia's attack as a defense against British imperialism, the YCL failed to realize that it is the ruthlessness and inhumanity of the aggression that constitutes the Soviet's crime in the eyes of the world, and not necessarily her general policy...