The Wilmington Morning Star

U. S. WILL ANSWER
NAZIS WITH DEEDS
Hull Says No Diplomatic
Protest Planned To
Highwaymen
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.- (AP) -
The United States' answer to the
torpedoing of the Kearny off Ice-
land with the loss of 11 men will
consist of actions, rather than words,
Secretary Hull indicated at a press
conference today.
The Secretary of State ruled out
any diplomatic protest, remarking
that one does not often send diplo
matic notes to an international high-
wayman.
Meantime, at the capitol, demands
were voiced for a complete report
on the clash last Friday between the
Kearny and a submarine which the
Navy sald was "undoubtedly Ger-
man."
Senator Gillette (D.-Iowa) said he
would ask
that the Senate Naval
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NAZIS WITH DEEDS
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committee demand details from the Navy department.

Chairman Walsh (D-Mass.) of the Naval committee agreed that Congress and the people should have additional information. He announced that the Navy had advised him it expected to receive full details by mail within two days.

At the same time, Walsh, an opponent of the administration's foreign policy, said in a statement that the mishap "should serve to waken the country to the perils of the course which we are now pursuing, and which I have repeatedly protested. It is a course which must inevitably lead to war."

From Senator Pepper (D-Fla) came the assertion that the time has come for the American people to put American might behind American right and reply to Hitler in the only language he knows—force."

Officially, the Navy continued today to list 11 as "missing," but men in the service regarded it as a foregone conclusion that they were dead—blown from the vessel by the explosion of the torpedo, or trapped and drowned in watertight compartments which were closed automatically to prevent the entire ship from filling with water.

A bare chance existed, some said, that one or more might be alive in a closed compartment which had not filled entirely with water.

The torpedoing, Hull said, is one more incident in a series illustrating the known and confessed effort of Adolf Hitler to get control of the seas, as well as of the continents.

He went on to say that Hitler has notified all nations to keep out of an area measuring 1,600 by 1,500 miles, in other words a large portion of the North Atlantic, and has warned that no nation—in self defense or otherwise—shall send a ship into that area without the penalty of having it sunk without a trace.

What Hitler proposes, of course, the secretary continued, is to drive other countries off the high seas, by intimidation or force, as part of his program of conquest.

Sarcastically, Hull added that if ships and nationals of other countries were to oblige Hitler by getting off the seas, he supposed the Nazi leader next would want them to get off the earth.

Asked if the United States Navy had inflicted any damage on Axis warships since President Roosevelt issued his "shoot first" orders to the Fleet, Hull replied he had nothing especially new on that subject and referred his questioners to the Navy department.