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...Oppenheim's well-known International Law, A Treatise, agrees. Although shipments of war prisoners through neutral territory (but not neutral waters) is forbidden, "prisoners of war on board [belligerent warships] do not become free by coming into the neutral port, so long as they are not brought on shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Rescue in a Fjord | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heartbreak | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Japanese produced the Vice Governor of nearby Uraga. "Why has the Governor not come?" asked Perry, by messenger. The Japanese said the Governor's rank forbade his boarding ships, would the Lord of the Forbidden Interior designate an officer of rank low enough to talk with the Vice Governor? He would -a junior lieutenant, who haughtily informed the Vice Governor that the Lord of the Forbidden Interior had a letter from the Mikado of the U. S. to the Mikado of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heartbreak | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...connection with State health departments, were sponsored in country regions of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Some of these communities had never paid much mind to medical guardians. "In Seminole County [Okla.] ... it took a midnight raid with flashlight photographs to put an end to the bootlegging of forbidden grades of milk. ... In another [county] a sanitation officer persuaded the authorities of a little city to do something about their water supply by the good old device of putting dyestuff down a suspected privy and watching it color the water of the spring whence the citizens quenched their thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Commonwealth Report | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Life is no picnic in any military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beaver's Work | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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