Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They told them: how they had once wanted to attack the German prize crew which boarded their ship and forced them to sail her north to Murmansk; how Captain Joseph A. Gainard, lean, softspoken, restrained them; that the Nazi crew were "damned good sailors" but ate themselves stupid on U. S. cooking; how in Murmansk they had seen the liners Bremen, New York, St. Louis, Hamburg...
...laundrymen off the Spee, who were found asleep below decks on the Tacoma when Uruguayan naval authorities boarded her. They, looking innocent, were not interned. They hoped for the same treatment which Uruguay gave to 108 Chinese crewmen of the German merchantmen Anatolia and Nienburg, who mutinied, refused to sail out of Montevideo when war was declared. Last week Uruguay shipped them on the Italian Oceania to Genoa, whence another Italian vessel will take them to Shanghai...
Past Italy almost every day sail French supply ships for Syria. Premier Daladier has taken off the retired list and sent to Syria famed General Maxime Weygand, who in 1920 helped the Poles to crush the Red Army offensive against Warsaw. Under General Weygand in Syria today is a French Army of some 20 divisions, with which he may help Turkey or Rumania as he once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. Andr...
...Fascist "Pact of Steel," and when the Allies called his bluff, II Duce rather awkwardly last fall backed down and declared "non-belligerency." Grumbling at home last autumn and a major shake-up among his top officers indicated that Mussolini's Italy had to do a lot of sail-trimming. > After seven years of Franklin Roosevelt, the U. S. was still in the dumps, offered no example to the rest of the world as to how to get along. Best Roosevelt deeds of 1939 Were his earnest but unheeded plumpings for peace...
...from Murmansk to Hamburg* (TIME, Dec. 25) apparently cued North German Lloyd's 32, 581-ton Columbus, third biggest of the Nazi merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...