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...Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...
...citizen wondered why: 1) Britain was thus jeopardizing U. S. good will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily...
That was beside the point, snapped the Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked...
...perished with all hands, probably after bumping a mine, that the Starfish and Undine were crippled by depth charges or caught in nets. Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh itself, makes its presence known ashore, where buttons are pushed to explode charges at the proper place along the barrier. Submarines encountering net types...
...honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner saw to it that their tones should ring with desperate effort. Prince of Heldentenors is Lauritz Melchior. His triple-brass larynx (which earns him the same top Metropolitan pay that Flagstad gets: $1,000 a performance) can stand the wear & tear of Siegfried...