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...Manhattan. When the next boatload would arrive, the committee could not tell. Problem was to find ships to bring them. This week the Senate approved the Hennings Bill (already passed by the House) to amend the Neutrality Act, allow U. S. ships, plainly marked, to go into combat zones to evacuate children. The Bill was not likely to be vetoed by the President; more likely to be vetoed by Adolf Hitler...
...aircraft contract log jam broken, the War Department signed $32,687,966 in contracts for 1,250 planes, all but 56 of them trainers which the Army & Navy must have before they can school pilots for combat planes. Ready soon will be contracts for the rest of the first emergency appropriation of $400,000,000 for 4,000 ships...
...what looked like the mightiest of navies (1,330,415 tons; 397 warships of all kinds). Its effective Navy included: 15 battleships, six aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 237 destroyers, 102 submarines, 1,300-odd useful combat airplanes. Great Britain at last reports had a little less tonnage (1,253,744) and 336 warships, was far behind the U. S. in submarines (56) and destroyers (192).* The world's third sea power, Japan, has afloat 241 combat vessels (tonnage: 961,326). Japan, Italy, Germany-the combination which the U. S. must now think about when measuring sea power...
...Negro can be a first-class fighting man. Of the 404,348 black soldiers drafted and enlisted during World War I, only about 10% were put into overseas combat outfits. With one exception their battlefield record was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th. Officered mostly by white men the 369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able...
...regular Army there are five Negro officers. Three of them are chaplains, two combat officers. One of the combat soldiers is the commanding officer of Harlem's 369th: blocky, tea-colored Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, who came up from the ranks in 1901, has spent a large part of his service on such details as military attaché to Liberia, professor of military science and tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school...