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Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...Denver's National Opinion Research Center, 62% saw nothing inadequate in the question. They declared themselves not willing to let foreign goods compete in the U.S. market. As he went before Congress to battle for renewal of his reciprocal trade act, good, grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull well knew that he had the attention...
...originally passed in 1934, expires June 12; Secretary Hull wanted another three-year extension (which might carry into the postwar period). He expected to get it. In 1940 renewal squeaked through the Senate by only five votes. But war had widened the horizon for many a Congressman...
...Cordell Hull laid his case plainly before Congress and the doubting Jenkinses. Said he: "What we do ... will be looked upon [by other nations] as a signpost pointing to the path they can expect us to follow. Repudiation . . . would be taken as a clear indication that this country, which in war is bearing its full share of responsibility, will not do so in peace...
Under no circumstances may the renewal of the Hull program be toyed with as a political issue before Congress, for the discontinuance of these agreements would be a clear indication to the world of a retreat to pre-war isolationism and "America First...