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...something. You hit the tops I think. Yes, I have heard about that exciting memo you sent to the staff, how you had to make waste paper out of the Emir and the wonderful follow-up of last week's Zamzam with this week's Robin Moor...
Ringing Words. It was a message fairly bristling with indignant phrases, condemning the German Government in scornful terms for last month's "ruthless sinking" of the freighter Robin Moor. The President spoke of "'the act of an international outlaw . . . policy of frightfulness and intimidation . . . conquest based upon lawlessness and terror on land and piracy on the sea. . . ." But the message did not call for a declaration of war. It did not call for any specific action...
Specifically, the President protested three violations of international law in the Robin Moor incident: 1) "The submarine did not display its flag," nor did the commander announce its nationality; 2) the ship was sunk "without provision for the safety of the passengers and crew"; 3) it was sunk "despite the fact that its American nationality was admittedly known . . . and . . . clearly indicated...
...Then the Germans sank the Egyptian Zamzam carrying 138 Americans, and torpedoed the U.S. ship Robin Moor-and relations were further strained when: 1. The Nazis threatened to continue sinking all ships carrying contraband to enemy ports...
...feelings were not aroused, the sinking of the Robin Moor had nonetheless brought a crisis on the U.S. The Robin Moor had not been bound for any war area, was far even from the huge war zone which Germany herself laid out-an area extending from Norway to Greenland, almost to Spain. If such sinkings continue, U.S. ships bound for other places remote from fighting fronts, will be in danger.* Henceforth the U.S. would either have to recall its ships from the ocean or enforce its right to the free use of the seas...