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...Navies of both sides are the agencies for fighting out this war of convoy and blockade, not only of food supplies but of oil, war materials and metals. (Last week in London and Paris search parties were already on the prowl for junk and scrap.) Reviewing this war's first six months, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was able to say last week: "Where do we stand on balance? . . . We lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since...
There were other dynamiters on the prowl. New York's' Rep. Daniel A. Reed had declared that the appointment of Ambassador to Belgium Joseph Davies to be Mr. Hull's special assistant was nothing more than the establishment by the Administration of a rich Washington lobby to resell Congress the trade agreement principle when the power to make agreements expires in June. And 17 blocks east, a handsome, jibjawed Republican Representative, Clifford Hope of Garden City, Kan., was reporting to House G. O. P. Pilot Joseph William Martin Jr. of Massachusetts...
...before his Committee runs wild Congress would do well to apply its checks. "Un-Americanism" is too broad a word for safety. If Congress confined his investigations specifically to groups engaged in overthrowing the government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected in one rational account, the goblin of subversive activities is cut down to man-size...
...false burglar alarm was accidentally kept in by the Cambridge Trust Company at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Almost immediately one patrol and one prowl car in addition to a motorcycle policeman were on the scene with guns drawn...
...ultimatum to clear out. Sir Percy was not speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl the Pacific than those of other foreign powers...