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...loudspeakers barked: "Everybody to the port side. . . . Prepare to abandon ship." But at the boat stations on the weather deck it was obvious that the motor lifeboats could never be launched because of the heavy list. A destroyer worked up under the overhanging lee deck. Ropes shot up and were made fast. The men, some in overalls, some in underwear, slid down like monkeys to the destroyer's fo'c'sle deck...
...with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
Last week thunderheads were gathering all over Tommy Hart's Orient. U.S. Marines were ordered to abandon Shanghai, other Chinese stations-lest they be massacred when war came (see p. 29). Australian troops swarmed into Singapore and Canadian troops into Hong Kong in preparation for new Japanese aggression. And at bases from Sydney to Manila, British, Dutch and U.S. ships prepared for action. Already U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had trumpeted: "The hour of decision is here." Tommy Hart was the man for that hour...
Alternatives: Peace. If Japan were ready to abandon the Axis and conduct a face-saving withdrawal from China, there would be advantages of peace as obvious to Japanese statesmen as to the U.S. To the U.S. they included resumption of trade with Japan, freedom to use the Pacific Fleet in the Atlantic. To Japan they included resumption of trade with the U.S. (access to the oil and other raw materials that Japan badly wants) and an alliance against Germany's world aims, which are a threat to Japan...
...possible flare-up of the issue of Faculty control over undergraduate activities was averted, it was learned today, when the Harvard Dramatic Club decided to abandon their fall production of Christopher Morley's "The Trojan Horse" for two shorter plays...