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...Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the filthy, seaworn, ketch-rigged little (61-ton) Norwegian tub Busko, first Nazi sea victim of U.S. naval might, trapped off Greenland by a U.S. patrol vessel, escorted into the harbor by the old 703-ton Coast Guard cutter Bear, once a Byrd Antarctic ship. Aboard the Busko were radio equipment, skis, dogsleds, two dogs, a Gestapo agent, 18 Norwegian sailors, a woman and a boy. What was the status of the captives? Were they prisoners of war or (since the U.S. is not in the war) prisoners of defense? Under what law could...
...with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech of confidence in Russia, flew to the U.S. in a U.S. Navy patrol bomber, raced to his home in Harriman, N.Y., 35 miles from Hyde Park. Harry Hopkins ran back and forth. But the President let more than 48 hours pass before he settled down to hear Harriman at first hand...
...sensations finally forced the U.S. to acknowledge that it was engaged in a shooting war, the facts that came out last week were even more convincing. They showed that the U.S. Navy's North Atlantic Patrol, which has expected trouble ever since the occupation of Iceland, has been actively looking for trouble since Franklin Roosevelt's "shoot on sight" speech of Sept...
...Stark's statement revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...Clemens, Mich., a song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move...