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Each demanded that Congress take a further step: permit U.S. ships to enter combat zones and deliver the goods...
...entire production of light tanks, "jeeps," armored trucks, scout cars was imperiled, according to the War Department, by a dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...
Wood was told that both Chambers would easily pass an amendment permitting the arming of merchant ships; that an amendment to permit U.S. ships to enter so-called combat zones would be hard-fought; that isolationist mail had slumped since the President's "shoot-on-sight" speech; that Congressional isolationists were climbing on the Administration bandwagon. The strategists decided to revert to the old tactic of stirring up the letter writers of the U.S., to flood the mails and wires with threats and complaints to Congress and the President...
...Armies together, sat them down to listen. In the front row were the two Army commanders: bluff, burly Lieut. General Ben Lear of the Second, and stocky Lieut. General Walter Krueger of the Third. Next to them sat Lieut. General Delos Emmons, boss of the Army's Combat Air Force...
Instead of coming out and asking for a direct repeal of both Section 6 (the ship-arming ban) and Section 2 (the combat zone restrictions which prevent us from sending our merchant ships all the way to England), the President preferred to be strategic. He "recommended" that Congress concentrate its efforts on voting down Section 6 alone, and save the other section for "early consideration...