Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over that luncheon lay the question of war. Over it too lay the question of U.S. public opinion. Two days earlier, President Roosevelt had told Congress that U.S. naval forces had occupied Iceland. U.S. public opinion supported this move even though Iceland lay in what Germany called its war zone. Moreover, said the President in his message, "I have . . . issued orders to the Navy ... to insure the safety of communications between Iceland and the United States." It now seemed inevitable that U.S. and German forces would clash in the Atlantic. But no observer could claim that U.S. public opinion...
...feelings were not aroused, the sinking of the Robin Moor had nonetheless brought a crisis on the U.S. The Robin Moor had not been bound for any war area, was far even from the huge war zone which Germany herself laid out-an area extending from Norway to Greenland, almost to Spain. If such sinkings continue, U.S. ships bound for other places remote from fighting fronts, will be in danger.* Henceforth the U.S. would either have to recall its ships from the ocean or enforce its right to the free use of the seas...
...While the Commission announced that U.S.-flag ships would take over Britain's shipping services to Australia and New Zealand (thus releasing British ships for combat-zone traffic), Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Maritime Commission to take over and use all foreign vessels now idle in U.S. harbors. Thus, with a pen squiggle, the U.S. became the prospective owner of 84 ships, totaling 459,140 tons. Topped by the $80,000,000 Normandie, now lying idle at her dock in the Hudson River, they also included freighters and six tankers-to help replace the 50 oilers recently...
...leading Paris dailies the skeleton remains are miserable little sheets consisting of one-and two-page editions in the Unoccupied Zone (where most are exiles), a maximum four pages in Paris...
...Department order recently forbade the News (and other Army publications) to identify units on duty in the Canal Zone. Caught by this instruction just before his deadline, Editor Doster remade his paper, slapped together a rough-house satire on censorship in general. Private Buford Carter, one of the News's self-trained staff artists, drew a lush nude, crossed out her mouth, breasts, belly and calves, and captioned it: SORRY, GANG- THE NEW REGULATIONS PROHIBIT THE PUBLICATION OF PICTURES OF EQUIPMENT...