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Blow The Man Down. In the State Department's musty, desk-crowded, press room two dozen newshawks gathered, waiting for Secretary Hull's daily press conference. Subject: ships again-this time the U.S. seizure of Axis ships in American waters. There was delay. One newsman growled, as the clock hands slowly scissored past noon: "Those damned Italians! They can't even scuttle a ship properly!" Laughing, the reporters filed down to the Secretary's blue-carpeted, leather-chaired reception room, watched him enter in excellent spirits. Hour and a half earlier he had released texts...
...what he did not need to say-was that the hemisphere-wide seizure of Axis ships, immediately after the U.S. acted, was a demonstration of coordinated hemisphere solidarity that surpassed any precedent. Two days before, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera (Hull calls him "Nádgera") signed an agreement permitting the U.S. to use Mexican airfields. The Good Neighbor policy was bearing rich fruit after years of backbreaking cultivation...
This week, when the press met him again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also...
...from the turret, the shells from a 37 mm. cannon cracked into the faraway pines. Ordnance men from far & wide saw what they had come mainly to see: the steady (22 to the minute) fire of the 75-mm. gun mounted on the starboard side of M3's hull...
...Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks of the smaller tank...