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...Gissimo had other signs of awakening U.S. interest in China. His brother-in-law T. V. Soong signed with Secretary Hull a long-range economic agreement, for post-war as well as wartime assistance. President Roosevelt warned the Japs on the use of gas (see col. 1). Wendell Willkie and many another bystander came out for immediate aid for China...
Under these circumstances, such agreements as were in the making this week were within the limits of the politically expedient. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote...
First a "high official" puffed: "Disappointments are ahead. . . ." Cordell Hull now blew back: "We can too easily be over-optimistic." President Roosevelt warned that the war would be awfully long; that swings of optimism and pessimism should be avoided...
Since February, midtown New Yorkers have looked glumly or angrily out of their west windows at the hulk of the great U.S.S. Lafayette, née Normandie, slumbering sow-like on her left flank in the Hudson River mud. All over the huge, ravaged hull workmen have been clambering, dissecting the dead thing, hauling away in antlike loads the three smokestacks and most of the two upper decks. People thought salvage was under...
...construction of mammoth bulkheads inside the boat, to control the shift of the thousands of tons of water when she moves. The silt under her must be blown out and dredged out. A thousand holes in her steel skin, such as ports, must be sealed up. Out of her hull must be drained as many of the tons of dirty water as engineering judgment decides. And at least 10,000 cubic yards of muck must be sucked out of her shell. When all this is done, with a hundred other more technical operations, the Lafayette will regain buoyancy, will right...