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That night he told the British why President Roosevelt had decided to build up the U. S. Navy. Said Kennedy: "People understand battleships. . . . There they are. They can see them; they have to pay for them; their children serve on them. ... If the Nations should again become engulfed in the cataclysm of a general war, we should make ourselves very strong and then pursue whatever course we considered to be best for the United States. The United States desires peace. . . ." And Kennedy the businessman added, "You cannot run down a customer with a bayonet."
*Complete roster: Joseph Jr., 24; John F., 22; Rosemary, 21; Kathleen, 19; Eunice, 18; Patricia, 15; Robert, 13; Jeanne, 11; Edward, 7.
*When their Warsaw villa was bombed, the Biddies moved to a Naleczów hideaway. When the exact street number of their Naleczów house was announced in a Berlin broadcast, they moved on to Sniatyn, near the Rumanian border; slept on hay-filled canvas sacks.
†Franklin Roosevelt gave Tony Biddle (who had contributed $100,000 to Democratic campaign funds) a chance as Minister to Norway in 1935. Biddle, keenly in earnest—his wife has spent only five days in Paris in the last two years—has done a good job mastering the language, making friends, reporting. In 1931 Biddle was divorced by Mary Duke, $50,000,000 Duke tobacco heiress. Three months later he married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, $85,000,000 heiress of the Thompson mining fortune.