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Ringing Words. It was a message fairly bristling with indignant phrases, condemning the German Government in scornful terms for last month's "ruthless sinking" of the freighter Robin Moor. The President spoke of "'the act of an international outlaw . . . policy of frightfulness and intimidation . . . conquest based upon lawlessness and terror on land and piracy on the sea. . . ." But the message did not call for a declaration of war. It did not call for any specific action...
Thus, one morning last month, 750 miles off the British port of Freetown, Africa, the U.S. freighter Robin Moor met her end. The Robin Moor had carried a crew of 38. eight passengers (three women, one child...
...British planes bombed the sweltering French Tunisian port of Sfax, just across the Mediterranean from Sicily. Chasing part of an Italian convoy into Sfax, the British bombers set fire to the 3,313-ton Italian freighter Florida II and the 4,999-ton French freighter Rabelais, damaged harbor equipment and a phosphate storehouse, injured more than 40 people. Vichy angrily protested that the Italian shipping had been in Sfax less than the 72 hours permitted by international law, that the British had no right to attack the port itself. But a fortnight before, following Vichy's recent announcements regarding...
...British freighter Anglo Saxon, out of England bound for Buenos Aires, was attacked 500 miles south of the Azores by the German raider Weser, since captured by a Canadian armed merchant cruiser. The raider shelled the ship, killing most of the crew and destroying all but one of the ship's boats...
...number and exact location of these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick...