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...tuned as carefully as he could. Next he caught the ship's call signal: GFSB. This was the Empress of Australia, a pretty big prize. The uncertain staccato chatter continued: Torpedoed. . . . Now down by bow. All lifeboats over to port. . . . Deck awash. At 10:53 p.m.: Being shelled again. Lat. 15:30 N. Long...
...night Lord Halifax walked on deck. He talked to the men on night watch. This tall man of 59, deeply religious, had never been in the U. S.. nor had he met the unpredictable social reformer and statesman on whom Britain now counted -President Roosevelt...
...President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George V to the Potomac, and the Presidential yacht disappeared into the mist on a voyage with no immediate destination...
...shattered fo'c'sle. men scrambled up on deck. Some, trapped below, drowned amid frozen fish, cluttered gear, shattered planking. After the crash, the schooner sheered off; the barge was swallowed up in the darkness. With the desperate hope of beaching his ship before she sank, Captain Fred Wilson swung her inshore. But the schooner was settling rapidly, nose down; the water was knee deep on the deck. The nested dories, welded together by ice, were useless. As their ship sank under them, Captain Wilson and the survivors swarmed up the icy rigging...
...Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...