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...were the defects of the qualities that made him a great historical figure. For he was not, like a Washington, a Cromwell or a Bolivar, an instrument chosen by multitudes to express their wills. . . . He was Man alone with God against human stupidity and depravity, against greedy conquistadors, cowardly seamen, even against nature...
...Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...week already black enough for the Allies, the Axis was smashing at the U.S. as dangerously on the Atlantic seaboard as in the Pacific. U-boats have accounted (by unofficial reckoning) for at least as much offshore tonnage as was lost during World War I. Approximately twice as many seamen have been killed or listed as missing; and the subs have done it in only one month...
...Vichy could no longer pretend to be neutral, few thought that the men of Vichy, who have wagered their personal futures on Axis success, would balk at ordering the French Navy to sail under Axis colors. But there was one practical obstacle: the temper of many French seamen, who have threatened sabotage if ordered to fight for the Axis...
Bitterly he described the machine-gunning of sailors in open boats as they returned from church services. His Jap grudge was fed also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess...