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...British planes bombed the sweltering French Tunisian port of Sfax, just across the Mediterranean from Sicily. Chasing part of an Italian convoy into Sfax, the British bombers set fire to the 3,313-ton Italian freighter Florida II and the 4,999-ton French freighter Rabelais, damaged harbor equipment and a phosphate storehouse, injured more than 40 people. Vichy angrily protested that the Italian shipping had been in Sfax less than the 72 hours permitted by international law, that the British had no right to attack the port itself. But a fortnight before, following Vichy's recent announcements regarding...
...Congress the fight over the Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...
Wherever he was, Admiral King was in dangerous waters. If there was any doubt about the danger, the Nazis' Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in Berlin removed it when he defied Ernie King's fleet to pass from patrol to all-out convoy, and said: "Nobody can expect a German warship to look on while an American warship communicates the position of a German man-of-war to the British Admiralty. Such procedure must be regarded...
...only confirm President Roosevelt's opinion that convoying means shooting, and since according to American statements cargoes of convoyed ships must be regarded as contraband, the introduction of such a convoy system would be not only an unneutral act under international law, but a plain act of war and unprovoked aggression." In other words, if the U.S. convoys, Germany will shoot-and expect the Japanese to shoot...
From one recent food convoy speeding toward a bombed area in the north of England, said John Parker, secretary of the Labor Party's Food Committee, "a large proportion" of the trucks were spirited away, never reached their destination. Farmers in Kent and other rural districts patrol their fields at night with shotguns to keep mobsters from slaughtering their pigs and sheep, roaring away in high-powered cars with the carcasses...