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With his frost-nipped ears taped up, Franz von Werra was taken in tow by the German Consulate in New York City. Out on bond, he reported in Manhattan to see what would happen next. Since international law forbade the U. S. to return him to Canada, likelihood was that the Government would order him deported. How a deportation order could be carried out with Britain in control of the seas was a question resourceful Franz von Werra did not worry about. He knew that, to Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe, he was worth 20 times his $5,000 bond...
...authoritative source said that in all likelihood the ships, when taken over, would be made available to the British, who are willing to buy almost "anything that will float...
There appeared little likelihood that Lewis would dominate Murray and run the show from backstage. Phil Murray had his chief over a barrel all week. Be fore he would agree to take the job, he demanded a resolution condemning Naziism, Fascism and Communism, one of the issues of the convention, a resolution that anti-Communist Hillman was eager for. Lewis squirmed, thundered that those who say Communists influenced C. I. 0. "lie in their beard and lie in their bowels." But finally he gave in. The resolution was passed...
...should divert aid from Britain to a war effort of its own in the Pacific, it might lose the big war while winning a little one. (There would be less likelihood of the diversion of such aid if Germany and Italy declared war on the U. S.-so it could probably be assumed that the Axis would not keep its promise of backing up Japan.) Hitler may well have made the recent tripartite treaty with Japan just to get the U. S. embroiled in the Pacific. And if Britain should go down, the U. S. would be in an unfortunate...
Disaffiliation with the national organization requires a two-thirds vote of the membership, and although Gottlieb may get his policy approved, there is no likelihood of his getting a two-thirds vote to disaffiliate. This may leave the Student Union in the paradoxical spot of being affiliated with a national organization with which it is in fundamental disagreement...