GREER ATTACKED FIRST
Mr Roosevelt said: ‘Tn spite of what Hitler’s propaganda bureau has invented, and in spite of what any American obstructionist organisation may prefer to believe, the German submarine fired first upon the destroyer Greer, whose identity as an American ship was unmistakable, with the deliberate design to sink her.
“Our destroyer was proceeding on a legitimate mission in waters which the United States had declared to be waters of self-defence. If the submarine, beneath the surface and with the aid of its listening devices, fired in the direction of the sound of the American destroyer without even taking the trouble to learn of its identity, as the official German communique would 1 indicate, then the attack was even more outrageous, for this indicates a policy of indiscriminate violence against any vessel, belligerent or non-belligerent. . “This was piracy, legally and morally. It was not the first or the last act of piracy which the Nazi Government has committed against the American .flag in this war. Attack has followed attack.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 5
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