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...Further Developments." On this delicate point Anglo-Italian negotiations in Rome broke down recently, the British delegation left for home, and the British Navy for the first time blocked the steady procession of Italian ships bearing German coal from Rotterdam via Gibraltar to Italy (TIME...
...declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships carrying German coal. In Rotterdam other Italian ships were still loading coal. Question: would the Italian Navy come after them...
...Laborite Emanuel Shinwell taunted the Government with letting Italian ships carry German coal unhindered to Italy week after week, and asked Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Cross if he knew that 16 Fascist freighters were last week loading Nazi coal at Rotterdam...
...Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...
...When Neutrality removed its eight ships from European trade routes, Black Diamond Lines chartered them to U. S. traders, maintained its foreign service to Antwerp and Rotterdam by chartering 26 foreign ships, doubling its service...