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...Accused it of withholding information from the U. S. Ambassador while issuing communiques about City of Flint to the public...
...Demanded that the vessel and cargo be turned over to the U. S. > Asked who had verified the alleged damage to the City of Flint's machinery that Vice Commissar Potemkin asserted to be the reason for the ship's remaining at Murmansk...
...Reported his action in a long, sharply worded communique which the State Department promptly made public, and added that he was still trying to telephone City of Flint's Captain Joseph Gainard, hardbitten Yankee seafarer who appeared in the news two years ago as captain in the Algic mutiny case...
Responsibility. All this was no game. It was no mean-spirited attempt to increase Russia's difficulties. It was no 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...
...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...