Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decreed that merchantmen of Panamanian registry should not be armed, Panama's President Arnulfo Arias was on his way out of his country. Three days later Panama had a new, pro-U.S. President. To cynics this seemed like a first-class example of U.S. interference in the domestic affairs of a Latin American country. In fact...
...German High Command last week claimed it had taken up another notch in Britain's belt-by sinking eleven merchantmen out of a convoy of twelve plodding toward Britain off the African coast. In these eleven ships, the Nazis boasted, were cargoes which would have filled 5,500 freight cars-enough food to feed a city like Hull for seven months...
...Washington this week, Congressmen hauled out the old Neutrality Act, prepared to rewrite the sections keeping U.S. merchantmen out of the war zones (see p. 77). If these provisions become law, U.S. overseas shippers will 1) get more cargoes at still higher rates, 2) have their ships completely armed and convoyed at Government expense. They will also have to make slower (because convoyed) trips. But with new Maritime Commission ships becoming available to them at the rate of about one a day in 1942, overseas ship operators should still make plenty of money...
Since that battle the "Newcastle" has been on the South Atlantic patrol, preventing German and Italian merchantmen from reaching South America, and now she is reclining at leisure in the Boston Yard
Soon in this new undeclared war a U.S. warship may sink or capture a Nazi sea or surface raider. And soon, if more U.S. merchantmen are sunk, the President must ask that merchant ships be armed. The Neutrality Act now forbids their carrying any arms beyond officers' pistols, but at the White House this week the President discussed with his Congressional advisers the advisability of asking Congress for a repeal of this section of the Act. Although no decisions were reached, this conference foreshadowed events to come. Eventually the Neutrality Act must be whittled down to the size...