Word: graf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join the U. S. with the 20 other American Republics in protesting to France, Germany and Great Britain against violations of the 300-mile safety zone, established by the Declaration of Panama last October. Because a naval battle was fought off the coast of Uruguay, because the Admiral Graf Spee took refuge in Montevideo and was scuttled on the River Plate, because a German merchant ship was sunk within the zone, the American republics warned the belligerents that they were going to consult "in order to strengthen the system of protection...
...Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee's semi-submerged hulk still smoked in the Plata estuary and her 1,039 officers & men were interned at Buenos Aires and Montevideo, four of them under arrest in the latter capital, pending an investigation to see if the Spee's scuttling was criminal...