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...Stimson asks convoys...
...Secretary Stimson denounced the Neutrality Act. "I have always considered it as a violation of our most sacred and important tradition of foreign policy-freedom of the seas. I have always prophesied it would bring us into trouble...
This is far better than the airlines dared hope in mid-February when 73-year-old War Secretary Stimson was lobbying for a total ban on new commercial planes. But airline operators did not crow about their victory, did not even announce they had received new planes. Reason: their national defense status...
Last Feb. 25. Secretary Stimson said that the Air Corps had nearly 4.000 planes. Mr. Stimson had rated only 650 as "first-line" planes, and conceded that the Air Corps had none up to the battle standards of World War II. About seven in every ten of the military planes now coming from U.S. factories are being exported, mostly to Great Britain. At this rate, the Air Corps will be fortunate indeed if it is anywhere near equipped for war on its own by late...
Before the Argentine Foreign Office made any reply, La Prensa, great Argentine daily, declared: "If the Argentine Government heeds this German protest, we'd be accountable for printing such news as Secretary of War Stimson's [Navy convoy] speech...