Two hundred yards from President Roosevelt the swastika flew boldly under a fresh southeasterly wind. It flew from the stern of the German freighter Arauca, chased into Port Everglades, Fla. by a British cruiser soon after the outbreak of the war. For 15 months the Arauca had sported a swastika, but a small one. One day last week, when President Roosevelt's special train had pulled into the siding at the Port Everglades dock, the little swastika was replaced by a huge one.
The wind blew fitfully; long swells rolled outside the breakwater. The Presidential yacht Potomac, armed for the first...
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