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Beginning July 1, the Department said, citizens of Canada, Newfoundland, Mexico, Cubs, Haiti, Panama, Bermuda, and the Dominican Republic desiring to enter the United States must have passports from their native governments and visas from the United States. Neither are now required
...almost doubled (while in the U. S. newsprint still sold for $50). A further rise to ?25 had been ordered by the Ministry of Supply for July 1, but after the invasion of Norway (two-thirds of Britain's newsprint came from Scandinavia, the rest from Canada and Newfoundland) the increase was expected to take effect immediately...
Moving pictures taken by Joseph S. Stern '40, who spent last summer in Cartwright, Labrador on a Phillips Brooks House summer jobs scholarship, will be shown at that time. They will tell of the life of the fishermen of Newfoundland and Labrador, the activities of the Grenfell mission among them, and the duties of a volunteer working for the mission. Stern will supplement the pictures by a running commentary and an informal discussion of social activities in which the mission workers share...
...volunteers who sang Sousa's Washington Post March upon landing). Navy men remembered the fix Britain was in the last time a Canadian vanguard crossed the water. That was in October 1914, when 33,000 men had to be moved in 31 ships from Quebec, plus one from Newfoundland, one from Bermuda. Unknown to the Germans, the British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers in the South Atlantic, chasing Admiral Count Spee's squadron. Also unavailable were the battleship King George V, which was in dock for repairs, and the battleships Conqueror...
...much bigger news that the 10,000-ton Deutschland-perhaps also her sisters Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee-was at large as a raider. Prime Minister Chamberlain took official cognizance of Deutschland in his weekly report to the House of Commons. She was known to have operated off Newfoundland between Oct. 5 and Oct. 15, halting two Norwegian vessels and sinking one of them, in addition to Stonegate. Admiral Scheer was believed operating in the South Atlantic. To British shipping this news was as serious as the discovery of sharks on a bathing beach...