Word: merchantmen
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British planes are reinforcing American patrols guarding the United States coastline, it was revealed Monday, co-incident with disclosure of the loss of two more Allied merchantmen, one by U-boat action...
First Brazil ordered all her merchantmen home or into the nearest friendly port. Then President Getulio Dornellas Vargas issued two new decrees. Though his Constitution gives him the right, in case of aggression, to declare war without consulting Brazil's decorative legislative bodies, he made assurance doubly sure by reaffirming this power. The other decree amended the Constitution to permit him to seize up to 30% of Axis assets, estimated at between four and six million dollars, exclusive of blocked credits in the Banco do Brasil...
...Authorized arming of merchantmen and opening of war zones...
...trade route for U.S. merchantmen was without ships to load last week. There will be no more intercoastal trade* until there are once more enough ships...
...Washington realizing that he had been out of step with his constituents. But the diehard isolationists continued to think that the country was out of step. In November, only 24 days before the Japs attacked Hawaii, they fought an amendment to the Neutrality Act to permit arming of U.S. merchantmen. Even as he got news of the attack, Senator Nye was still isolating as hard as he could...