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...sailing vessels last week nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall...
...Honolulu, the pacifists who had threatened to sail their ketch Golden Rule into the Eniwetok blast area were jailed for defying a court ordering them back. From French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer renewed his stop-the-tests plea, with trimmings of benign neutralist disengagement...
Four men sailed for the Hawaiian Islands, planning to go to Eniwetok in protest against continued testing of nuclear bombs. They left San Pedro, California, on February 10, in a thirty-foot ketch. Albert Bigelow '29 was captain of the ship; the crew contained another alumnus, William R. Huntington '28, who has a daughter at Radcliffe...
...week after the ketch had arrived in Honolulu, the University of Hawaii newspaper ran an extra, headlined GOLDEN RULE--ISSUE OF AN ERA. It may well be such an issue, and four men in the Pacific have made up their minds as to how they feel about it. The voyage can be opposed or supported; it should not be ignored
...ketch, "Golden Rule," was damaged by storms soon after its departure, and was forced to return to San Pedro for repairs. She set out again at the end of March, and reached Hawaii on April 19. On April 28, the United States Government issued an injunction instructing the crew to appear at a hearing on May 1. On that day the four men, defying the Government, the U.S. Navy, and the Atomic Energy Commission, all of which had given orders that no one was to enter the testing area, set sail from Honolulu for Eniwetok. In half an hour they...