Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeated his inquiries about the welfare of the U. S. crew, which was beginning to look like the unluckiest pawn in the game...
Commissar Potemkin based his reply on various inadequacies of the Russian communication system, customs of the country, lack of information, "well-recognized principles of international law," and the obligations of a neutral. As for turning the vessel and her cargo over to her U. S. crew, Russia had made a final decision that to do so, unless the German prize crew refused to take it out, would be an "un-neutral...
...matter of "taking sides." There were 41 U. S. sailors on City of Flint. Had the U. S. followed another policy it might have been placed in the position of evading its responsibility to them. Unexpected refusal of the Russians to permit U. S. access to the crew opened a hole as big as the blast of a torpedo in the Russian case. Newspaper dispatches called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory over such a problem; the outcome appeared rather to be an instance in which a simple demand for candor...
...record, if nothing happened to the U. S. crew during the voyage of City of Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia's refusal to permit Ambassador Steinhardt to get in touch with them would become a diplomatic blunder of the first magnitude...
...were still aboard early this week when the City of Flint, flying the Swastika, still manned by a Nazi prize crew, put into Tromsoe, Norway, seeking supplies. Nazi Consul Herr Henrik Jebens boarded her, saw the Americans, talked to the Germans. Uneasy Norwegian authorities furnished no supplies, four hours later escorted her out to sea again...