Word: bremerhaven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...
...Puerto Rican sailor who had left Manhattan March 14 on an Army transport came down with smallpox in Bremerhaven. Manhattan officials promptly began a hunt for his Manhattan friends...
...their train lumbered out of Bremerhaven, the U.S. Army wives newly arrived in Germany got their first view of the ruins of bombed-out towns, the ill-dressed people. At one stop they looked across the platform at a dingy line of boxcars, jammed with German women and children returned from Silesia, shabby and impassive in defeat. Said one wife: "This makes me sick at my stomach. Not out of sympathy. It's civilization eating itself...
...wives were eager to go anyhow. By the time the Barry reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
Fritz Kuhn, ex-Bundist deported as an undesirable alien, stepped off the ship at Bremerhaven, Germany, was promptly arrested by U.S. military authorities as an undesirable native...