New York, Sept. 8.
Commenting on the controversial claims mad: by Washington and Ber. lin as to who was the aggressor in the North Atlantic destroyer-submarine encounter, the "New York Times" expressed tha hope that President Roostvelt will authorize as a matter of policy the principle that American warships henceforth automatically fire first when spotting a Nazi submarine within striking distant on the seaplane 4 Iceland.
In an editorial entitled "First Shot" the journal asserted that the United States plainly has warned Germany that she would not tolerate any Nazi raiders to endang: r supplies to Iceland.
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