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...JOHN BAKELESS...
...Hatch '28, J. H. Lane '28, M. W. Linn '27, H. F. Murphy '27, A. E. Reed '26, Madison Sayles '27, C. O. Simpson '27, A. G. Smith '26, Joseph Sullivan '26, John Surpless '26, H. J. Wallace '28, H. H. Watchpocket '28, and D. W. Bakeless, manager...
Since Author Bakeless presents facts supported by an imposing bibliographical reference list, and since his style is engagingly candid and modest, the dullest reader cannot but take bit after bit of fact in his teeth and go galloping off to all sorts of stimulating thought hurdles...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...
...everyone knows, Edward VII squelched Lord Fisher's ambitious scheme to seize the navy of a "friendly" power during what Mr. Bakeless calls "the piping times of peace...