Word: gripsholm
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...