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...Germans had apparently permitted the ships to sail with the understanding that they were being dispatched to suppress a revolution in Africa in favor of General de Gaulle. It seems that France then informed the British that she was in reality sending them to join forces with Britain again. Just as slyly the British pretended to believe the trick, but made sure the squadron would never reach the rebellious colonies in French Equatorial Africa. Off the coast of West Africa British warships intercepted the French flotilla, drove it back to Dakar, in Senegal, which was still subservient to Vichy...
...easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting by Britain's side could British sailors feel guaranteed that they and their ships would be used to reconquer their homes, free their families. Granting Brailsford's premises, his conclusion is inevitable: it is only enlightened self...
...might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced to remain aboard ship until his plane left...
...every threadbare sail...
Twentysix, redheaded, pretty, weighing 90 lbs., she obviously could not ship before the mast. Besides, she wanted to sail as captain. She plucked $1,100 from the bank and headed for Baltimore. There the schooner Fannie Insley, dirty, spectral, gaunt, was tied to a city wharf. The Fannie Insley took her eye. She planked down $800 for her ("her bottom was sound"), spent the rest of her fortune fitting her out, by virtue of her ownership became Captain Grant, hired a couple of hands, cast off into the business of hauling freight up & down Chesapeake...