Word: contraband
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...abolition of a time-honored prerogative to landowners of distilling their own hard liquor without paying excise to the Government. By decree the Petain Government achieved what other Governments had un successfully attempted since 1789. It outlawed home distilling, thereby in theory checking the scourge of alcoholism, reducing the contraband liquor trade and bringing a tidy excise sum into the national treasury...
Great Britain, appeaser to the end, kept on offering concessions in contraband control until Mussolini brusquely broke off negotiations. He was too busy preparing for action...
...orders from the White House, offered Mussolini a desperate bribe to stay out of the war: a treaty of friendship, a trade agreement, new credits. Such appeasement must have flattered Il Duce. Nevertheless, Il Duce refused. Meanwhile parallel British appeasement feelers, equally fruitless, resulted in a temporary easing of contraband inspection of Italian vessels passing Gibraltar. Last week Italy made hay while the sun still shone...
...Great Britain discontinued its contraband control bases at Weymouth in the south and The Downs on the southeast English coast, removed all but a skeleton staff from the control base at Kirkwall in the Orkneys...
...merchant fleet, the world's fourth largest (4,834,902 tons), is within the Allies' reach and out of Germany's at ports around the world. In conducting their blockade of Scandinavia, the Allies need no longer judge between essentials for the Scandinavians and possible contraband for Germany. Though stretched and strained a bit by new German threats from Norway's headlands, the northern blockade can now be absolute...