The Archive · 1941

US. Navy's Opportunity

Boston, July 1.

Col, Frank Knox, Secretary of Navy, last night declared that' "the time to use our Navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace is at asserting that Germany's occupation with Soviet Russia had given the United States a golden opportunity to swing into action, "Addressing the national Governor's Conference, Col, Knox declared that "now is the time to strike. At this time, while Chancellor Adolf Hitler is busy' crushing Soviet Russia, we presented with an opportunity vitally to aid Britain," through making the Seaslanes safe for shipments of arms to Britain, "We can help Britain strike at Herr Hitler by givin her the means to bomb Plants which make Herr Hitler's all, lanes, uns and other materials of, war, and by cracking the moral of the German people.

"An all-out offensive that will destroy Hitlerism can only be undertaken if the products of the huge wat industry we are completing find their destination in the. British Isles, promptly and safely," he concluded United Press, in dense smoke, the target, which was soon enveloped

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