Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the late war as well as in the present one, it appears to be the privilege of the war craft of belligerent nations to stop and search (under threat of fire) the vessels of neutral countries. This privilege extends to the examination of the mails, the identity of crew and passengers as well as cargo. Such "highjacking" takes place upon the high seas and, I understand, even in neutral waters where possible...
...credits exempted. 8) No person in the U. S. may solicit or receive funds for any belligerent state named. 9) If the President believes a ship leaving a U. S. port is carrying men, arms or supplies to a belligerent warship, but has insufficient evidence to stop its departure, he shall require the shipmaster to give a bond in any amount on the condition that he will not deliver the men, arms or supplies to any warship. 10) If the President finds any ship of any country has violated such clearance, he may intern that ship...
...much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement by abdicating. But the scorn burned warmest in the stories that dealt with the likelihood that those great pacifists, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, had united in the drive for Peace...
Fist Over Latvia. So pleased was J. Stalin with his Estonian success that the Dictator told that country's luckless Foreign Minister to stop at Riga on his way home and "invite" the Latvian Government to yield to Russia in return for trade favors, a naval base at Libau...
...glaring portable searchlights. Modlin was given until 6 a. m. to hoist a white flag of surrender, but failed to do so, and heavy German bombardment at once began. This continued until 7 a. m., when Modlin finally hoisted the white flag. In front of Warsaw the "stop firing" order had been given on both sides for 9 a. m. and fire punctually stopped, but due to some misunderstanding the Poles resumed fire with rifles, grenades, mine throwers and machine guns at 11 a. m. Heavy German artillery opened up in a final series of crushing blows and spunky Warsaw...