Mr. Knox Rockets

Mr. Knox's Rockets

From the rocket Navy Secretary Frank Knox sent whistling up into the eastern sky three weeks ago (when he announced that Hitler was "the enemy who before all others must be defeated first"), sparks were still falling. Last week Colonel Knox turned his rocket gun to another quarter, to let Asia know that our flag is still there.

Back home in Chicago, Colonel Knox made a speech. Said he: "Some people evidently misunderstood me. . . .

"Hitler hatched this ghastly conspiracy on the whole world but the enemy is one enemy. . . . We dare not turn our...

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