Word: gripsholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish liner Gripsholm stood ready for another errand of mercy. Into her hold went medicine, clothing, cigarets, food packed by Red Cross volunteers who worked day & night shifts. Aboard went the pathetic little gifts, prepared with great hope and sorrow, by the families of the American men & women who are spending the war in Japanese prison camps...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...
...Americans returning home on the Gripsholm who witnessed the bombing of Tokyo on April 18 were interested to read TIME'S and Jimmy Doolittle's accounts of the raid and are anxious to give the American public our ringside impression...
...board M.S. Gripsholm...
...understatement. Behind him, on the anchored Gripsholm, painted in the blue & yellow of neutral Sweden, were some 1,450 passengers, two-thirds of them Americans-diplomats, correspondents, missionaries, doctors, businessmen, the wives and children of some, including several babies born in internment and one born...