Word: gripsholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marques, Mozambique, where they filed their first stories of internment under the Japs, 26 U.S. correspondents grimly compared notes with the sassy Jap correspondents returning with tennis racquets and golf clubs from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Last week the U.S. newsmen ended their long voyage home aboard the Gripsholm. By comparison with their sadistic treatment in Jap prisons and concentration camps, even those U.S. correspondents interned in Germany and Italy had been pampered...
...first pictures of U.S. civilian prisoners in Japanese camps reached the U.S. last week (forwarded by plane when the exchange ship Gripsholm touched briefly at Rio). They showed children (see cut) and grown-ups bearing up not too badly in confinement, but the pictures did not tell the worst...
Slappo Club. It was indeed, no isolated case, refugees on the Gripsholm reported. On the whole, the Japanese treated Britons worse than Americans or Dutch, but slapping was so common that victims banded together in a Slappo Club. Otto David Tolischus, dour correspondent of the New York Times, wrote...
...When the Gripsholm landed him and 69 other volunteers in Finland, Oscar Penttila was straightway re-enrolled as a captain, given a battalion which included 20 other U. S. volunteers. They went out on 58 ski patrols, fought Russians 40 times, lost one dead and three wounded. Of some 500 U. S. and Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent...