Word: contrabanding
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...words that came from the radio wherever Germans listened on contraband frequencies were German. But the accent was British, the voice pleasantly impersonal. Burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F.'s Bomber Command, had gone on the air to promise that his bombers (and the Americans') would "scourge the Third Reich from...
...that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them, by night, through narrow mountain passes to a farmhouse within earshot of a Jap garrison. Once, during their two-day hideout, they escaped a Jap searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey's end, too numb to move, they were carried through ice water...
...Then the Germans sank the Egyptian Zamzam carrying 138 Americans, and torpedoed the U.S. ship Robin Moor-and relations were further strained when: 1. The Nazis threatened to continue sinking all ships carrying contraband to enemy ports...
...only confirm President Roosevelt's opinion that convoying means shooting, and since according to American statements cargoes of convoyed ships must be regarded as contraband, the introduction of such a convoy system would be not only an unneutral act under international law, but a plain act of war and unprovoked aggression." In other words, if the U.S. convoys, Germany will shoot-and expect the Japanese to shoot...
...will pay. By week's end the pre-war Rumanian-British friendship had run its course to overt enmity. After the rupture of diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 17) the British Board of Trade announced that all goods of Rumanian origin, destination or ownership henceforth would be considered enemy contraband...