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Shepherded by a Coast Guard tug and three tootling patrol boats, the Swedish-American liner Drottningholm nosed into New York Harbor. She had come through the most dangerous waters in the world, with 40 searchlights playing on Swedish flags painted on her hull and on the word "DIPLOMAT" in letters 13 feet high. Aboard were 114 Americans repatriated from Norway and Sweden. In other ships, similarly lighted and on similar missions, there was under way last week the greatest exchange of diplomats and belligerent nationals in history...
With global war taking more territory every day out of the diplomatic province, Mr. Hull was content for the State Department to fill henceforth what he called last week "a minor role." However, there was still work to do-in Latin America, for example, on top of fine work already done. And Finland-well, Finland would have to be told again to stop fighting Russia or face a U.S. declaration...
Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...
...built, 12,500-ton tanker Victoria, Felix G. D. Salomone, Master, tanks blown full of Argentine linseed, was clipping along northbound 300 miles off Cape Hatteras. Just before sundown one day, a torpedo smacked into her 30 feet aft of amidships. Deck plates buckled, but her all-welded Albany hull stood up: the bulkheads of the tanks were unbreached...
...conditions were approximately the same in both races, with the Varsity winning the Compton Cup for the sixth straight year by a length and a quarter and the Yardlings all but leaving their opponents hull down astern. When a crew gets that far ahead the tendency is for a general let-down, but apparently the Freshmen didn't relax very much, and the Varsity never moved for enough ahead to take their minds off the business at hand...