Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles sat chatting with British officials on the deck of the Italian liner Rex off Gibraltar late today while British contraband control officers removed 34 bags of United States mails addressed to Germany and Poland in defiance of Washington's protests against these actions...
...Under-Secretary was given a though example of British blockade methods and saw the Rex put through the Gibraltar contraband control station in three hours and 40 minutes in contrast to periods ranging up to more than two weeks for American ships forced into some of the Allied contraband control ports...
...weeks ago the U. S. was bristling with anger at Britain for her illegal seizures of mail, and for holding up the Manhattan days on end at Gibraltar. Now the Government finds itself faced with the German threat that American ships which touch at Gibraltar are "legal" prey for U-boats. More and more, this country is finding that even as efficient a Neutrality Act as the one now in force can open up a lot of holes under pressure. And yet, if the President and Secretary of State, in their administration of the Act, will be true...
...zones, the areas where U. S. ships must not go. His execution of his duty has not lived up to the high moral stand of the framers of the Act. American ships are still allowed to enter the Mediterranean, where they must undergo inspection by the English at Gibraltar, and run the German risk both inside and outside that narrow strait. Both these conditions are crammed with possibilites for U. S. involvement...
...zone in any part of the high seas where the Germans or the English choose to make a threat. If this policy were followed, soon we would hardly dare to run a boat from New York to Savannah. But the Mediterranean is a different matter. Flanked by suez and Gibraltar, it rests well under the British thumb, and so is a natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could be accused of over-cautiousness, America, having...