The Archive · 1941

Keep Off Enemy Planes

Likewise, the guns should have sufficient range to keep enemy planes at a height where a miss would be more likely than a hit.

Such guns should be capable of de-stroving dive-bombers before the bombers could let loose their deadly loads.

If we arm our merchantmen, of course Chancellor Adolf Hitler will have a legal excuse to attack them, eve, and most Navy men will agree with me, that it is better to arm than to resort to subterfuges such as "acin American ships under Panamania registry.—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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