DESTROYER ATTACKED
AMERICAN PROTEST UNLIKELY
LONDON, October 20. When asked to-day whether the United States intended to protest to the German concerning the torpedoing of the United States destroyer Kearney, the Secretary oj State (Mr Cordell Hull) said that the United States did not often send diplomatic Notes to European highwaymen. Hitler, he said, had endeavoured to drive American shipping from 2,000,000 miles of the high seas. He would soon be wanting to drive them from the land also. Mr Hull will be the first speaker when tHe hill for the arming of American merchantmen comes before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. By 12 votes to nine it-was decided to take the evidence before the committee in private. 1
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 9, 22 October 1941, Page 6
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