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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

London reports said that the new blockade would be handled by the Allies at the same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Burned by the fire of War I, the U. S. shuns the blaze of War II. Believing themselves to have also been well singed by the Allied and German propaganda of War I, the U. S. people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: What the U. S. Believes | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Passengers on the motorship Challenger (American South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The German freighter Adolph Woer-mann (8,577 tons) slipped out of Lobito, Angola,* where she had lain interned since war began. With her escaped the German liner Windhuk (16,662 tons), a vessel built in 1936, reputedly for special war work: raiding. Germans in Lobito said Windhuk, heavily armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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