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...Levantine tongues. Day before, as the Excalibur docked, three days out of Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then, late this month, he would head under the guns of Gibraltar towards home...
...said Mr. MacDonald, Jews will be prohibited from buying more land in all the hill country and in the southern districts of Beersheba and Gaza. This is more than half the country. Furthermore, Jews will be allowed land purchases only "by special permission" in other large restricted areas around Haifa, Lake Tiberias and Ramleh. Jews can still buy land in municipal areas, in the Haifa industrial zone and in a 50-mile stretch of the Maritime Plain between Tantura and Ramleh, practically all owned by them already...
Further south, based in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, is a fourth Army, of perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...
...Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates and 30,000 tons of manganese, two essentials of cannon steel. Most seizures were made at control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen beef, etc., etc.). Upon ships bound for Italian ports, especially Trieste, with cargoes suspected of ultimate German destination, the ministry was not yet cracking...
Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...