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...Approach. Something more than rebuffs would be needed to win the war. The President was studying the convoy problem. Insiders knew the answer he would find. When a situation involves divided public opinion, Franklin Roosevelt likes to edge into it; only when he thinks he is sure of the reaction does he move dramatically. Probability was strong that he would exhaust every possible means of supplying the British with ships, would devise every possible shade of diplomatic approach, would allow the whole convoy problem to simmer until public opinion was definitely behind...
...Costa Rica's port of Puntarenas, one German and one Italian ship were set afire. Seizure of Axis ships in South American ports was expected momently. Belief spread that the President would shortly announce U. S. convoy (at least halfway across the Atlantic). And no one expected Adolf Hitler to endure such measures without reprisal...
...England this was as bad news as the sinking of a convoy. It meant the loss of meat supplies from Ireland. Worse still, the same invading plague was already entrenched in Britain. In England this week there have been the worst attacks of foot-&-mouth disease in years and the public has begun to clamor against the Government's policy of slaughtering all infected beasts to prevent its spread. Reason: cattle are scarce, and the disease, though highly contagious, is rarely fatal to animals...
...Strait of Gibraltar the four Vichy freighters and their destroyer kept as much as possible in Spanish waters as they sailed past Britain's fortress. As the convoy entered the Mediterranean the British gave chase but did not open fire. Presently the screech of projectiles began, not from the Vichy destroyer but from coastal batteries in French Algeria. Were they manned by Nazis or by Frenchmen? The British could not be sure, but their ships opened up and shelled the shore batteries. The French convoy put on speed and ducked into Nemours in Algeria. As the British ships...
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...