Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internees were escorted by 24 soldiers of the Indonesian army-the same army which has held them captive since they were prisoners of the Japanese. Nipponese P.O.W.s unloaded their baggage. Indonesian military police directed traffic outside the station as a motor convoy moved the forlorn group off to evacuation camps and hospitals. In all this dismal scene, the only other Dutchmen in evidence were a few doctors wearing Red Cross armbands...
...Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...
After 35 years of complete Japanese domination, Koreans were falling over themselves with pent-up political activity. One small boat met the U.S. convoy 20 miles offshore. In it was a Korean who nominated himself for Finance Minister...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...