This bizarre allegation simply hung there, misfiring, for another forty-eight hours. There was no formal reaction from the Administration. They simply declined comment on the issue, as if the demagogic raving of the Governor of Louisiana was too clownish for words. Public attention focused instead on the U.S. Navy, whose Atlantic armada was being launched against the Dutch in an archaic ritual of wind-snapping Old Glories. The gallant old warcraft wallowed out to sea from their half-drowned military dry docks. All eyes were on the War now—or at least, they were supposed to be.