Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi ship after another has left sanctuary and tried running the Allied blockade to get home. Rule No. 1 of Germany's sea war being to diminish Allied tonnage, Rule No. 1 for homing German ships is to scuttle rather than be seized. Last...