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Several things happened last week to make diplomats wonder how long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
Last week the war reached out to Chicago. Since late July the Dutch freighter Prins Willem III had swung at anchor off Navy Pier, unable to sail back up the St. Lawrence for fear of capture in Canada. But by last week internment in Canada looked better to the bored, sequestered Dutch than gazing at the Chicago skyline all day. Onto the deck swung a Canadian crew, headed the Prins Willem III out across Lake Michigan...
...Manzanillo, Mexico-on Mexico's Pacific shore almost due west of Mexico City-the 6,892-ton armed merchant cruiser Prince Robert closed in on the 9,179-ton North German Lloyd freighter Weser and took her prize. Aboard the Weser was a fishy cargo: 19,000 bbl. of fuel oil, 600 bbl. of lubricating oil, 15 live steers, a large stock of fresh vegetables and a "lot of miscellaneous stuff." Her clearance papers were not in order. Mexican officials, who thought that the vessel was headed either for a supply rendezvous at sea, or for Vladivostok, whence...
Germany last week jubilantly quoted the master & crew of the Brazilian freighter Magalhaes, just back in Lisbon from Southampton, as saying that that great British port was now "dead." The Magalhaes had waited there two weeks for a cargo, finally left without one when Germany announced her total blockade of the British Isles. In that time, the Magalhaes' master was quoted as saying, only one ship left Southampton with industrial products. Rail lines from the interior had been crippled by repeated air bombing. Most Southampton warehouses were destroyed or damaged. The King George V graving dock, only...
Back to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter bound for Vladivostok went "Big Joe," unpopular, 60-foot, stainless-steel statue of a worker that last year surmounted the Russian Pavilion at New York World's Fair...