Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London reports said that the new blockade would be handled by the Allies at the same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to show that their cargoes have been inspected in their own countries and found non-contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended...
...people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's most honest press can learn for them about War II. How skeptical the U. S. public is about war news, even that originating from its own Capital, was made digit-plain last week by a FORTUNE survey of U. S. credulity...
Passengers on the motorship Challenger (American South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and a British cruiser, also a French cruiser. Challenger's passengers then realized they beheld part of the far-flung Allied hunt for Nazi sea raiders...
Acting as a decoy, Adolph Woermann ran down toward Capetown, last week scuttled herself when overhauled by a British patrol. Lighthouses were doused, radio to ships cut off, harbor restrictions applied all around the coast of the Union of South Africa, for fear of hungry Admiral Scheer, angry Windhuk...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...