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...worked with might and main to modify the ironclad "carry" provisions backed by the Administration. They got nowhere, but they didn't give up. So, as soon as the Neutrality Act was passed, they bobbed up again with a plan to transfer U. S. ships to Panama registry and sail them into war zones...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...
Then there was this affair about changing some U. S. ships to Panama registry so they could sail into war zones. Vag had just about made up his mind that this was hedging, and exactly the wrong thing to do to stay out of war. After all, Mr. Hull thought so too. But again, the President quickly made the statement that the matter had no bearing on our neutrality. What to believe...
...promise was kept. Russia announced that the German prize crew had been interned. That would imply that the ship would be released to its U. S. crew. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information. Russia announced that the German crew had been released. That would suggest that the ship should sail under her German crew within 24 hours. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information, tried to telephone Murmansk, sat at his desk till 5 a.m., daily prodded the Foreign Commissariat, tried to get permission to charter a plane to send an Embassy secretary to Murmansk, once got Murmansk on the telephone...
...difficult. First it got jammed under a viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered...