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...fact, ascertained by neutral observers last week, that Britain's destroyers in home waters were now whittled down to about 60, with a like number laid up for repairs. To eke out surface escorts, big British seaplanes now fly convoy far out over the Atlantic. This situation underlay Britain's anxious effort to buy old U. S. destroyers...
...This underlay the sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
...Union a new class had its first contact with the man whose vigor has wrought many changes in the college within two short years, President Conant. The subject of his speech "independent thinking" is one which has seen frequent treatment at Harvard but the sincerity and earnestness which underlay his remarks disclose with clarity the manner of man that occupied the President's office...
...certain reasonableness underlay the Rumor. Between President Hoover and Justice Stone exists a thoroughgoing friendship. Justice Stone was in the Hoover family circle the night its head was nominated at Kansas City. He fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
...fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...