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Mahan's Day. There was no denying that against the destructive virtuosity of surface raiders, of Nazi airmen and of seamen lying in the chill, sweating bowels of the U-boats, the British convoy system was far from effective. The great danger was that, with better weather, it would become even less effective. In the tragic, high-hearted history of Britain's first 18 months of war was the admitted record of at least 4,300,000 gross tons of shipping lost at sea. This was a net loss (after replacements) of some 2,650,000 tons (TIME...
With her windows looking out over Plymouth Sound, Lady Astor could not help knowing that a convoy had just arrived. The port was ship-filled, and the freighters were freshly warped in to un load their instruments of defense. It was these ships and the docks and the warehouses after which the bombers had come, and were to come another night. This was part of the new German pattern...
...Germans now had their reconnaissance planes report where each convoy arriving in Britain anchored, and then sent bombers to try to annihilate it. This was the mission of recent raids (many of them two nights in a row) on Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, Glasgow in Scotland, and Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton in England. Even in London, which last week received its worst raid in six months, the primary target was the docks. In each port the Germans did not mind if there was tremendous ancillary damage to houses, lives, communications and morale. (In the second night's raid...
...surprise-one of those studied slips of inside dope, those discreet indiscretions, which so delight the Prime Minister: "Not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our independently routed ships not sailing in convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42nd meridian of longitude...
...share of the American Navy. Now the same front groups which paved the way for F.D.R.'s earlier destroyer deal and the Lend-Lease Bill are calling for American ships manned by U. S. officers and seaman. The "short-of-war" line has been pushed by proponents of various convoy schemes to the Japanese definition: "War is when you declare...