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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London reports said that the new blockade would be handled by the Allies at the same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to show that their cargoes have been inspected in their own countries and found non-contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended...
Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...
This incident proved nothing positive about War II's air superiority, or even the whereabouts of Willy Messerschmitt. But both those subjects remained key factors in the war, and last week the New York Times's No. 1 war writer, Hanson Weight-man Baldwin, played down a major story by writing quietly...
Probability is that German production is nowhere near its potential peak right now. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of planes flown in Poland had to be overhauled, taking men off production. And lessons in Poland and the West are doubtless being incorporated in new designs, for which production will wait. Here Designer Willy Messerschmitt comes in, if he hasn't gone...