Was the U.S. already in a shooting war with Germany, or not? In some alarm, the Senate's Naval Affairs Committee sent for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, to tell them true. Rosy-jowled, freckle-fisted Colonel Knox, who likes to think of himself as a bluff character, two days before had hinted that the U.S. Navy was under orders to attack "hostile craft" on sight in the Atlantic.
It all began when Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner reported last month that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference...
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