Word: dock
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...cannot enforce her laws nor carry out her improvements unless she possesses some means by which she may force her authority. The glaring fault of internationalism as applied to cities was shown at the time of the Red drive on Poland, when the German stevedores and dock workers in Danzig struck, and held up ammunition and supplies needed by the Polish Army. The Poles threatened, Sir Reginald Tower, official administrator, pleaded with the strikers, but to no avail. For a time the situation was critical...
...willing to accede to France's requests while she could find commerce elsewhere than in the North Sea. But she met with a stern rebuff on this side of the Atlantic. The U. S. Transport "Leviathan," which England offered to purchase, is still rotting at its Hoboken dock because anti-British sentiment only to effectively blocked such a negotiation. Ships in Boston Harbor were prevented from taking on cargo for two months for the reason that they were flying the Union Jack. These are but two gross examples of a campaign as wide as it is sinister: the campaign...