When the Attorney-General told Mr. Cox that the forward hatch of the Thetis was not fitted with fastening clips, Mr. Cox said he was staggered. His plan of salvaging the submarine, he added, would not have worked "in view of the terrible disclosure."
The Attorney-General interposed and said that Mr. Cox was not entitled to make observations of like terrible disclosure!"
"is not justified and does a certain amount of harm to uninstructed people."
A thrilling account of how he locked himself for 14% hours in a light steel chamber representing the Davis escape chamber, and allowed air to reproduce conditions which were presumed to have developed in the Thetis, was given today by the famous scientist, Professor J. B. Haldane, Conditions were definitely unpleasant, he said, but there was not an intolerable feeling of bursting lungs, which people got if they were, for example, buried alive. No one could Say that it gas pleasant, he added, but he would not call it torture.
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His decision to postpone the consideration of the Neutrality legislation meant that President Roosevelt would be forced to call a special session of Congress in the event of a European crisis developing between now and January, according to Mr. Stephen Early, Secretary to the President, He told reporters- mat. all infdenintion received from diplomatic representatives and intelligence services indicated the possibility that such a crisis might develop, and "I am certain that from the time Congress adjourns until it reconvenes in January, the President will pray as never before in all his life that there will be no new crisis in Europe."
Senator Hiram Johnson, the veteran isolationist, stated: "If the President goes to the country, we will go on the slogan, this country wants no war"?
The decision to give up the Neutrality fight for this session elicited a wide variety of views from Con-pressmen.
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