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FUND TO REIMBURSE GERMANY FOR LOSS CAUSED BY UNNEUTRAL PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE IN ORDER TO LET WORLD KNOW THIS NATION IS NEUTRAL IF THE PRESIDENT IS NOT. I'LL GIVE FIVE DOLLARS...
During the late war as well as in the present one, it appears to be the privilege of the war craft of belligerent nations to stop and search (under threat of fire) the vessels of neutral countries. This privilege extends to the examination of the mails, the identity of crew and passengers as well as cargo. Such "highjacking" takes place upon the high seas and, I understand, even in neutral waters where possible...
Even with passports in hand both foreigners and U. S. travelers had only Hobson's choice of liners, no certain sailing dates. Stalled were Poland's Gdynia-America Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Britain and France maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took...
...Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held at 3¾, but the export rate was upped from 3¾% to 5%. Reductions on British shipments, underwriters pointed out, reflected the belief of marine experts that the British convoy system had begun to function with more efficiency. But on shipments to and from Black...
Onetime newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...