Pug’s yeoman brought in two newspapers smelling of fresh ink. The headlines were huge: NO CONVOYS—FDR and PRESIDENT TO PRESS: SPEECH DIDN’T MEAN CONVOYS “Unlimited Emergency” Merely a Warning; No Policy Changes Skimming the stories, Pug saw that Franklin Roosevelt had blandly taken back his whole radio speech, claiming the reporters had misunderstood it. There would be no stepped-up United States action in the Atlantic, north or south. He had never suggested that. Patrolling, not convoying, would go on as before. No Army troops or marines would be sent to Iceland or anywhere else. All he had
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