Word: neutralities
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...exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting planes and anti-aircraft fire drove...
...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
...most inadequate of answers is that we Americans are neutral and, therefore, need do nothing whatever about it. If that were proposed as an explanation of why one did nothing when he saw women and children tortured by fire, or a passerby of whom he had no knowledge, being assaulted by a bandit within plain sight, we should have but one comment to make and that comment would not be very flattering...
With the hurly-burly of the debate over, the leaders of the nation must settle down to the ordinary, day-by-day brand of neutrality. The decisions that will have to be made may not be as spectacular as the arms embargo repeal, but they will be of enormous cumulative effect. Negotiations with belligerents over our neutral rights, though they may be countless in number and picayune in detail, nevertheless set up precedents by which great decisions are made. It is essential that they be backed by a strong and consistent general policy. Likewise, the handling of our war trade...
...maintain so far as possible the status of neutrals in war. this last is, probably, out of the question at the present time, for there are new to recognized neutral rights whatever; and since the world war we have made no serious attempts to establish such right...