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...full import of the recent Allied successes in the Atlantic became apparent last week. At a time when, as of four months ago, Allied authorities expected to be losing ship after ship to the greatest of U-boat campaigns, the actual losses were astoundingly small. In fact, the ocean lanes to Britain and North Africa last week were more dangerous for Germany's U-boats than for Allied merchantmen...
...William Walton was the only newsman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer when she sank that German U-boat (TIME, June 7), so today the Battle of the Atlantic has a very personal meaning for him. (He has now landed safely in Britain to work with the American Eighth Air Force there...
German propagandists were hard put to it to explain why Admiral Doenitz' "inexorable U-boat warfare" (TIME, May 10) was working in reverse. Sample efforts...
...Submarine Expert Heinz Bongartz: "In pursuing the U-boat warfare Germany has the choice of two methods: either to sink as much tonnage as possible, as was done in 1942 (and which would inevitably lead to catastrophe for the enemy), or to apply attrition tactics aimed merely at 'neutralizing' the enemy's new building program...
...good progress so far made against U-boats does not mean that the U-boat danger is over. But to Navy Secretary Frank Knox the news was "very satisfactory." Said British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "The battle of the U-boats . . . is not yet decided, but at least we feel better about it than we have...