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...bill finally passed the House with 100 Republicans (out of 151 who voted) and 19 Democrats voting against it, the scene shifted to the Senate. There too the convoy argument trailed it. Michigan's Vandenberg produced a letter from Maritime Commission Chairman Emory Land which reported that only eight out of 205 ships clearing from U.S. ports for the United Kingdom between Dec. 30 and March 31 had been sunk. Non-interventionists triumphantly pointed to the figures as proof that ship sinkings were much less alarming than the British and the Administration had painted...
...report came that 27 U.S. merchant ships would steam to the Red Sea with supplies for the British troops in Africa and the Near East, Senate noninterventionists loaded their blunderbusses. They hoped to wing the ship bill when it reached the Senate floor and tie an anti-convoy amendment to its tail. But Administration forces were certain they had the votes to carry the measure through as the President had ordered...
...very interesting item appeared in the papers which does not a little to explode the crying need for convoys to protect our aid. (I am aware that the attitude expressed in the editorial had not yet arrived at accepting convoys.) Rear Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United-States Maritime Commission, stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below...
...second half of the bill, "Convoy," is a good, exciting bit of British propaganda. Like "The Lion Has Wings," it doesn't care much about plot, but concentrates on proving that all Englishmen are gentlemen and that the British Navy is supreme. The sequences of a naval battle between a British cruiser and a German pocket battleship are especially good...
Estimates are difficult, but all in all, this country with cooperation abroad might be able to contribute two million tons to the British during the coming year. Washington need not wait for Gallup to O.K, any convoy system before making this aid effective. Not an American citizen is asked to serve abroad for Britain. All that is necessary is that we serve the interests of United States' defense more thoroughly, and within the limits of the Lend-Lease Bill...