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London reports said that the new blockade would be handled by the Allies at the same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to show that their cargoes have been inspected in their own countries and found non-contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended...
...boasting about it, justifying it, instead of pretending the mines were British. They said their "objectives were being achieved." They said they were proving they could give ten shots for one. Some of their mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES UP, UP GOES CHURCHILL. They advised neutrals to shun British waters, trade with Germany instead. British waters, they said, were not mercantile fairways, subject to The Hague Convention of 1907 regulating sea warfare,* but military areas where enemy ships of war abound and must be attacked. They had been made military areas by the British themselves with their...
...long as this destructive nihilism continues, every weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states...
From Peking (Japanese) and Hong Kong (neutral) came reports that last month Communist Generalissimo Mao Tse-tung charged the central authorities with failing to set up democratic government in China, with having arrested a Communist officer without provocation, with having actually fought a three-day battle against the Communists when the Japanese were less than 100 miles away...
...neutral Washington suggestions are pouring into the War and Navy Departments and to the Patent Office. The military and naval authorities are chary of discussing these whizzbangs, but the details of a patented idea naturally become public knowledge. Some U. S. war patents...