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...Port Newark, N. J., an Italian seaman with no love for Il Duce tipped off a customs official that Italian ships in U. S. ports were being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent...
White-haired, square-prowed Rear Admiral Chester William Nimitz, sitting with the House Naval Affairs Committee few weeks ago, took a look at the naval horizon through a seaman's spyglass. "Probably many of the Admirals of the future," said the Navy's Chief of the Bureau of Navigation (personnel boss), "will never have been to Annapolis." Committee members found this wild prophecy just funny. Since 1900 there have been no more than four officers of flag rank who were not Annapolis graduates: since 1914 not a single...
...Downing Street since then has become increasingly frank in appeals for a share of the American Navy. Now the same front groups which paved the way for F.D.R.'s earlier destroyer deal and the Lend-Lease Bill are calling for American ships manned by U. S. officers and seaman. The "short-of-war" line has been pushed by proponents of various convoy schemes to the Japanese definition: "War is when you declare...
...brawls, the friendships and conflicts of men too close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
Chairman of their meeting was Thomas McKay, 27. Graduated from college at 20, Thomas chose an unpromising vocation-selling bonds in Wall Street in 1933. He made up to $100 a week at it, soon got bored, went to sea as an ordinary seaman. By last week he was back at bond selling, had got an M.A. (in economics) and was studying nights for a Ph.D. Also present: Mrs. Helen Whitebook, radio writer, Jeanne Weiss, secretary...