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This was not too remarkable, for a few days earlier Vice Premier Admiral Darlan of France had given out a fat sheaf of statistics on steady French cargo traffic through the British blockade in the Mediterranean. While the British had sunk seven French food ships, said Admiral Darlan, they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut...
London said the Vichy convoy had been known to carry "important war materials destined for Germany," including a cargo of rubber from Thailand. Vichy said its ships were taking nothing but food (rice, barley, sugar, etc.) from one overseas French port to another, called the British riposte to shellfire an act of "unjustifiable aggression...
...mind about development of the St. Lawrence for some 30 years: "Construction should commence at the earliest possible moment"; the U. S. Government regarded the project as "a matter of vital necessity." He said that the opening of the St. Lawrence deep waterway as an outlet for naval and cargo ships to be built in Great Lakes shipyards would be just the opposite of a diversion of funds and resources from defense; that a long-drawn-out war would demand building "several times" as many shipyards as are now available...
Without bothering to find out just where 42° West lay, U. S. editors dusted off their scare type. They hauled out foggy old pictures of the merchant U-boat Deutschland nosing into Baltimore harbor in July 1916, with its cargo of dyestuffs; remembered the story of the U-53, Lieut. Hans Rose commander, putting right into Newport, R. I. in October of the same year, dropping anchor smack alongside the U. S. submarine D-2 long enough for Lieut. Rose to go ashore and mail a letter to the German Ambassador in Washington; echoed the panic...
Britons' hunger is conditioned by two thing.: 1) the scarcity of refrigerator cargo space, 2) the constant bombing of gas mains, which puts a premium on food that does not have to be cooked. They also want the maximum of food in the minimum of space. This means they want as much of their meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from...