Word: bermudas
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...they had stopped U. S. ships on the high seas (the same sort of thing that brought on the War of 1812), had seized and opened U. S. mails (a criminal offense). They had even confiscated a ton of air mail from the American Clipper as it landed in Bermuda. Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim was that of 25,000 packages examined in three months, 17,000 did contain...
...Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...make sure the point stuck, next day British authorities in Bermuda dragged sacks of mail from a transatlantic Clipper, began putting it through a thoroughgoing examination. When the Clipper took off for the Azores 24 hours later, more than a ton of mail was still in the hands of the censors. All Secretary of State Cordell Hull could think of to do about this was to hint that the Clippers might stop calling at Bermuda, fly directly from the U. S. to the Azores, as they did before war broke...
...dickering with Belgium. Hardest hit of all U. S. lines because of its big number of passenger ships formerly plying the North Atlantic, United States Lines has placed two (S. S. Washington and S. S. Manhattan) in service to Genoa and Naples, one (S. S. President Roosevelt) in the Bermuda trade...
...Holland-America Line last week withdrew indefinitely from service its No. 2 liner, Statendam, laid her up in Rotterdam away from risk. The No. 1 Dutch liner, Nieuw Amsterdam, after four unprofitable Bermuda runs, is now on cruise duty to the West Indies. With the Queen Mary and Normandie tied up in New York, the Bremen and Europa in Bremerhaven, no nation, belligerent or neutral, is now risking its big expensive liners in northern waters...