Axis Raiders and Submarines a Menace President Roosevelt: merican shi ening of the Red Sea hes a vital ssu L. Oliver (U.S.N, Retired) in the "Christian Science Monitor." But the next question is to get them there. The legal bonds have been sevican ships are free to carry the ar materials. But will German sub-and Nazi surface raiders have to be the process? And will the question of convoy acted at a time when there was no thought of the war spreading to anything like its present the Neutrality Act was de-to keep Areric; izens and nipping well away from war zones and there-y avoid exasperating incidents. In effect it tel's belligerents that if they desire our goods they can take them away in their own ships.
The doctrine of the freedom of country had sub: y fought for since the birth of the was thereby jettisoned in an effort to avoid the possibility of on in being drawn Act pro-egyptian ports ith any cargoes they desire. But arriving there safely is another matter.
In the days when interna nal law had attained a fairly stable and universally recognized verst that could befall a neutral ihe act of carrying contraband ed and sent into a port of the plot where the matter was adjudicated by prize court proceed:
International as the power which however, is only as strong it and when Ger-w fit to inaugurate a reig of terror on the seas by utilizing the pot ies of the submarine for waging unrestricted warfare with sight, neutral shipping lost
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