Word: contraband
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...Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles sat chatting with British officials on the deck of the Italian liner Rex off Gibraltar late today while British contraband control officers removed 34 bags of United States mails addressed to Germany and Poland in defiance of Washington's protests against these actions...
...Under-Secretary was given a though example of British blockade methods and saw the Rex put through the Gibraltar contraband control station in three hours and 40 minutes in contrast to periods ranging up to more than two weeks for American ships forced into some of the Allied contraband control ports...
Simultancously, Secretary of State Cordell Hull emphasized at a press conference that American vessels still are under strict orders to refuse conveys such as Great Britain reportedly is prepared to offer U.S. ships forced to submit to contraband inspection in belligerent waters...
...south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy man, for this was his last run before retirement. Below decks, oilers were puttering around the purring Diesels. It was 5 :12 a. m. All well...
Benito Mussolini's paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia, with notable lack of logic, angrily blamed the deaths on France's contraband authorities. "Those four hours proved fatal. If the French had not stopped the Orazio, the ship could easily have reached Barcelona, even in flames, and all aboard would have been saved...