Word: convoying
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...only amendment which might inhibit the powers that the President had asked was No. 3. But Congress' refusal to "authorize" convoying did not prohibit the President from exercising an authority he already had under the Constitution. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy, he can send armed forces wherever he sees fit. That U. S. naval vessels might, in the end, have to convoy foreign merchant ships, in order to make sure that aid to Britain got to Britain, was a possibility over which opponents of the bill brooded...
When Norway was invaded by the Germans, Britain took charge of 3,750,000 tons of Norwegian shipping. Members of a Norwegian shipping mission in the U. S. let it be known last week that they were not happy about the British convoy system and use of Norwegian bottoms. Chief complaints...
...Convoy (John Clements, Clive Brook, Judy Campbell; TIME...
...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...
...Convoy (John Clements, Clive Brook, Judy Campbell; TIME...