Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finnish tanker Wiima, the first ship to try to run jet fuel into embargoed Red China (TIME, Feb. 16), was within 1,500 miles of China when her master received radioed orders from her owners to halt. Early one morning last week, the dirty, dumpy Wiima, loaded to the Plimsoll line with her 7,000-ton cargo, dropped anchor 20 miles from Singapore. "I am waiting," said her skipper, "for further orders from my owners. To run to China is a great risk, but it is my job, and my crew is in good humor...
...military aid to Europe would halt at once...
Asking Red Rumania to halt the Wiima at dockside was pointless. So the U.S. turned to Finland, whose government dislikes Communism but fears to show it too openly. The Finns bravely promised that no more fuel oil will be shipped to Red China in Finnish bottoms, but they couldn't stop the Wiima: she is immune from government interference while on the high seas...
Congressmen should not let the yappings of the economy bloc halt this Indian investment. If anything, it should be increased. Some have said that both logic and the requisites of a bipartisan foreign policy dictate Bowles' retention as advisor to the program he has sponsored. But his popularity in India is so great his presence there might detract from Allen's effectiveness. The Eisenhower administration must allow the new Ambassador to continue Bowles' program if they hope to check the sudden backsliding in Indo-American relations...
...hospital. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to another camp, Gleina, as Maurice Chouquet. There he worked in the hospital, and watched his chance to escape. It came only when the whole camp was moved eastward, into Czechoslovakia, for extermination. On the way he bribed another Gestapo officer and, during a halt to bury some dead prisoners, led a mass flight across the fields to a nearby wood...