Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian liner Rex hove to last week off Gibraltar, a tall, icy-eyed man leaned on the rail, watched impassively as British censor officers came alongside. While seamen removed from the Rex's hold 334 bags of U. S. mail addressed to Germany and Poland, Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, left his post at the rail, joined the British officers at tea on the veranda deck. Presumably as a compliment to him, the Rex was cleared in the record time of three hours and 40 minutes. Then the British officers politely said good-by to polite...
Again last week Scandinavia was the most critical spot on the map as its 13,000,000 citizens continued to be put on the spot by all sides of the warring nations. Almost daily the casualties of Scandinavian shipping mounted until the score stood at 92 merchantmen sunk, 753 seamen killed-all by the Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed...
Northern Blockade. Basic point made by the Allies in last fortnight's Altmark affair, when the British destroyer Cossack raided a fjord of neutral Norway to liberate 299 British seamen taken from the late raider Admiral Graf Spec's, victims, was that German use and abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland...
...conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...
Great Britain is so proud of the delivery of British seamen from the German prison ship Altmark that the drama of Gjossingfjord may be made into a propaganda film...