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When true military secrets need protection, the only effective censorship is censorship at source, for so-called voluntary censorship, which is subject to many a dangerous abuse, is no solution. Said one newsman to Secretary Knox privately last week: "A Japanese friend of mine told me that a British warship is in a U.S. port. [He named the type of ship, the place and its commander.] The British Commander has seen a lot of action, has a fine story to tell, and we can't tell it. I'm just sitting on the story. It doesn...
...same space (see cut), a waiting crane swung the first keel section for the 10,000-ton cruiser Santa Fe. Already under construction on New York Shipbuilding ways were six more cruisers. And scheduled for later construction there are the first of a wholly new kind of U.S. warship-six of the coming Alaska class, which the Navy selfconsciously refuses to call battle cruisers. The Navy's untidy substitute: "large cruisers...
...British warship seized the French tanker Sheherezade-bound from Houston, Texas, to Morocco-off the West African coast; and a Dutch ally intercepted the 8,379-ton French merchant ship Winnipeg-carrying a mixed cargo out of North Africa-off the island of Martinique. There were 210 Germans aboard the Winnipeg...
...Admiral King was in dangerous waters. If there was any doubt about the danger, the Nazis' Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in Berlin removed it when he defied Ernie King's fleet to pass from patrol to all-out convoy, and said: "Nobody can expect a German warship to look on while an American warship communicates the position of a German man-of-war to the British Admiralty. Such procedure must be regarded...
...three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...