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...U.S.S. Iowa, first of a class of six, went down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the heaviest* hull ever set afloat. When complete, she will weigh about 45,000 tons (52,000 with full load). To launch her 45 tons of grease were needed and she slid down into the water on four sets of ways...
First Principles. Both Winston Churchill and Cordell Hull, before Japan entered World War II, promised post-war reconsideration of the Western world's claims on China. But the U.S. and Britain, intent on fighting the Axis, have neglected the psychological front among a billion Asiatics. China is fighting as a free nation, but India, demanding freedom, is being kept from it by wartime realities and political confusion (see col. 3). Chinese Scholar Lin Yutang last week gave one appraisal of the situation: "If it appears to the Asiatics and the South Americans and the people of the countries subjected...
...Silent. Some of the people said nothing. "Two Japanese masks walked out of Hull's office. . . . 'Is this your last conference?' they were asked. No reply...
December 7 Begins: Washington wire from Wilmott Ragsdale at the State Department, 1 p.m.-Japanese envoys asked for an appointment with Hull. . . . The book ends, 202 pages later, with the scene of Congress declaring war: "There were no tears. . . . There was no prayerful silence. . . . It was just the American Congress, its neck bowed, its back arched, and itself buckled down to the job of giving 'blood, sweat and tears' in any volume necessary to defeat the most audacious attack of the aggressors...
...experts on Far Eastern affairs, 2,500 America Firsters assembled in a meeting, 2,000 New Orleans citizens who assembled outside the Japanese consulate on St. Charles Avenue, 2,500 moviegoers in the Majestic Theater in Dallas, a score of reporters outside Secretary Hull's office, 20 correspondents in the pressroom of the White House...