Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval auxiliary ships, the House passed and sent tot he Senate a bill giving the Government broad powers to regulate the use of U. S. merchantmen in the current emergency, and Rep. Ed V. Izac, D., Calif., proposed that the U. S. Navy be used to patrol a new "shipping zone" between this country and Ireland...
Considering the Battle of the Atlantic, the Prime Minister declared: "The United States patrol . . . takes a considerable part of the Atlantic in a certain degree off our hands, but we need a good deal more help. I expect we shall get a good deal more help in many ways. . . . We can probably maintain our minimum essential traffic during 1941. . . . As for 1942, we must look to an immense construction of merchant ships in the United States. . . . It may be that 1943, if we have to endure it as a year of war, will present easier problems...
...does the U.S. neutrality patrol extend...
...press conference the President repeated that the neutrality patrol could go anywhere on the seven seas, that speculation about its extent was futile. (An hour earlier, Admiral Stark had told reporters that U.S. patrols were operating 2,000 miles at sea. Fortnight ago Mayor LaGuardia, as U.S.-Canadian Joint Defense Commissioner, said they were operating 1,000 miles off the coast.) The President said estimates were meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality...
...effective is the patrol in warn ing shipping of Nazi raiders and submarines, in tipping off British warships...