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Moves. Administration supporters downtown and on Capitol Hill already had their jackknives out, were busily whittling away at the rotten wood of the Neutrality Act. Secretary of State Cordell Hull had already announced that he favored drastic modification or repeal, had said that the Act was as likely to get the U.S. in the war as keep...
...another notch in Britain's belt-by sinking eleven merchantmen out of a convoy of twelve plodding toward Britain off the African coast. In these eleven ships, the Nazis boasted, were cargoes which would have filled 5,500 freight cars-enough food to feed a city like Hull for seven months...
...formula for a permanent settlement of maritime wage disputes. Bonuses to sailors already included $60 a month for voyages into belligerent waters, $45 to $75 for each particularly dangerous port of call. The Commission's idea was to figure out a scale based on war-risk hull insurance rates. But A.F. of L. seamen along the East Coast would not wait for the Commission to finish its arithmetic. In defiance of the Commission's warning, and in violation of their contracts, they struck...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...
...French pilots who were captured while trying to join De Gaulle; two were sentenced to death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...