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...hall a New York Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...
Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State during Cordell Hull's vacation, said at once: The U. S. was pleased when a great power like the Soviet Union reaffirmed its intention of maintaining its neutrality in the event that a neighboring country suffered attack. Not since the Bolsheviks took over has the U. S. called Russia a great power. But if Joseph Stalin was willing to release Turkey to help check Hitler in the Balkans, the U. S. could say friendly words, might even act upon them...
...Eastern Mediterranean was confirmed last week) buzzed around the southern squadron. They concentrated on the battleship, later identified as the Vittorio Veneto (35,000 tons, 15-inchers), which was hurt in the Taranto raid on Nov. 11 but had been repaired. Three torpedoes found the Vittorio Veneto's hull, probably in the stern works, and cut her speed from 32 to 15 knots...
...that time there wasn't a Navy Yard in the U. S. big enough to handle a 70,000-ton battleship-let alone an 80,000-tonner. And Naval authorities doubted the wisdom of concentrating so much fighting power in a single hull. Such a giant ship would lack speed, maneuverability, would offer a much bigger target to air attack, would be unable to get through the Panama Canal. And its loss would be a staggering blow to any fleet. Nevertheless, the U. S. Navy has always believed that in a showdown between speed and gun power, gun power...
...Germans now had their reconnaissance planes report where each convoy arriving in Britain anchored, and then sent bombers to try to annihilate it. This was the mission of recent raids (many of them two nights in a row) on Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, Glasgow in Scotland, and Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton in England. Even in London, which last week received its worst raid in six months, the primary target was the docks. In each port the Germans did not mind if there was tremendous ancillary damage to houses, lives, communications and morale. (In the second night's raid...