Word: patroller
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Within the vague waterline thus laid down last week, British blockaders and German submarines presumably may not venture without trouble from the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard on peace patrol. But then Franklin Roosevelt, apostle of aggressive, anti-fascist neutrality, intimated that he had no desire to risk getting the U. S. into war by explosive insistence upon classical neutral rights...
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay proposed last week to patrol the shores of the east coast of South America lest they be used as bases for warring European sea rovers. It was a big order...
Inasmuch as the Army was bound to guard the Panama Canal and the vital Caribbean, and the Navy was recommissioning many of her 116 old destroyers and would have to man them for Neutrality patrol, his military measures were not extreme. They did leave the inference that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be prepared to fight-if not against Naziism, at least for Neutrality. Said Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, explaining why he would rather keep the Atlantic Squadron near home than convoy U. S. refugees from Europe: "Well, you have seen the reports of submarines in the Caribbean...
Herbert Gaston's chief job within a job is to direct the Coast Guard on peace patrol. Along with the Navy (which last week began to recommission 116 ancient destroyers for patrol), the Coast Guard will range the Atlantic Coast and 200 miles...
...first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...