Relief is pouring in from all quarters, and excellent service is being rendered by British and foreign naval and merchant ships in sheltering the fugitives and bringing relief.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

We already know foreign specialisation has squeezed the Brits out of most merchant, ferry and cruise liner building.

BBC: Fog on the Clyde

Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.

FORBES: The Future Is Fish

Jean Monnet, a brandy merchant from Cognac, in southern France, and Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, a lawyer from the disputed region near the French-West German border, worked together on the "Schuman Plan, " which Schuman proposed on May 9, 1950.

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