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...only Anglian burial ship ever found that vandals had not looted. In it was a king's cargo: plates of beaten silver delicately embossed, gold clasps inlaid with garnets and mosaic, a great gold buckle chased and ornamented with black enamel filling. Archeologists descending on the scene thought that the king was probably King Raedwald of East Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain...
...began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows that an occupation of Danzig would give Germany a stranglehold on Gdynia. To keep Danzig alive (the city always depended on the Polish hinterland for its business) Poland continues to allot almost half her sea cargo to the Free City. Last year Gdynia handled 8,173,400 cargo tons, incoming and outgoing, almost twice as much as New Orleans handled; Danzig's share was 7,127,200 tons...
...cancer of the jaw, Freud at first refused to leave his home. In vain did his nephew, Manhattan Publicist Edward Bernays, plead with him to spend his last days in the U. S. He surrendered only when London's famed Dr. Ernest Jones flew to Vienna with a cargo of shrewd arguments...
...coast of Palestine the weirdest and most wretched drama of the homeless was taking place. There, outside the three-mile limit, a collection of jampacked, unseaworthy little tubs lay waiting for a chance to run cargoes of permitless refugees ashore. There were Greek sailing schooners like the Panagiya Correstrio, usually carrying three fishermen, with 180 below decks; tramps like the grimy, 320-ton Assimi, flying the flag of Panama, which hauled 270 German and Central European Jews for 36 days before British officials arrested its captain; cargo boats like those which, unable to run refugees into Palestine, abandoned 424 Danzig...
...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...