Weeping unrestrainedly, Italian seamen today clustered about the open graves of two shipmates at Great Yarmouth and vowed. "We shall never forget you; we shall never forget this wicked attack"
The funeral was that of two Italian seamen of the Italian vessel Amelia Laura, which was bombed and set aflame by a German plane some miles off the British coast on March 8.
After the ceremony, an Italian Ofüicer, addressing the men, said. "Here were two men in the prime of their lives, one a husband and father, the other young and robust. They have been killed by a wicked attack. We will never forget Reuter.
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Regarding British contraband control at Gibraltar and other ports where U.S. ships were held up longer than others, such as Italian vessels, British leaders were understood to have asked Mr. Welles to help in obtaining the full ce-operation of U.S. shippers in applying for navicerts, declaring that if this were done a large source of American complaints would be eliminated.
It was considered significant that the London press, coincident with the American envoy's presence, was printing pointed remarks regarding the American attitude toward the European war. They all stressed the Allied statement that the war was being waged in the defence of democracy in which they said the United States should show a keen interest, as well as an understanding of British war measures and aims. It the United States should come into the war now the Nazi regime would be certain to collapse before summer, the press declared. Through American intervention the lives of hundreds Of thousands of young men would be spared, they said.
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