Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Huey Long was elected in 1928, Lake Charles was still booming, had financed locally a $6,500,000 port improvement fund to build up its port, and Sam Jones was stumping for Al Smith in a pro-Klan district. When Huey Long was being impeached on 19 charges, including a plot to murder a legislator, Sam Jones was working in Lake Charles as assistant district attorney. When Long was making the Legislature of Louisiana a savage parody of democratic processes, packing the courts, building the Capitol, putting in roads, trapping his opponents, calling out the troops, and boasting, "There...
...Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would...
...version was that Norway's customs authorities at Bergen went aboard the Altmark but, honoring her service flag, did not search her. Norwegian officials claimed that the ship was stopped first outside of Trondhjem Fjord, did not call at any port. A Norwegian gunboat was assigned to escort her through Norway's territorial waters as she made for her home port, Hamburg...
...Oppenheim's well-known International Law, A Treatise, agrees. Although shipments of war prisoners through neutral territory (but not neutral waters) is forbidden, "prisoners of war on board [belligerent warships] do not become free by coming into the neutral port, so long as they are not brought on shore...
...west. While the Russian transportation system never has been much, Germany's has been so overworked of late that it has begun seriously to deteriorate. Despite all the bluff about Russia supplying oil to the Reich, it was noted last week that at the Rumanian port of Constantsa on the Black Sea, the first post-pact Russian tanker with oil consigned to Germany had just arrived. The shipment-12,000 tons-was to be refined in Rumania and then shipped by rail through Hungary to the Reich-a long, expensive process...