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Last week the U. S. Navy shook itself violently, prepared to settle down Feb. 1 under a new seagoing command, a new organization. The shakeup, announced by Secretary Frank Knox, was not particularly notable in its dimensions. But to most naval officers it was of extreme interest, for if war comes, this is likely to be the new command and this the new organization under which the Navy will fight...
...Pacific Fleet, Secretary Knox had a new Commander in Chief U. S. Fleet, No. 1 seagoing job of the U. S. Navy, to announce. Upped from command of cruisers of the Battle Force to the highest seagoing job in the Navy was Rear Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, jumped over 46 admirals to fly the four-star flag of CINCUS at the main of the flagship Pennsylvania. As CINCUS, 58-year-old "Hubby" Kimmel will be in charge of operations of his own fleet, of training in all three, will command two or more of the fleets if they are concentrated...
...falsely emotional. We can learn to avoid errors of method--as indeed we have learned, in refusing again to set such a trap for ourselves as Wilson's submarine policy, which put the peace of the United States at the mercy of the strategic calculations of the German High Command. But whatever the past may teach us, it is still the problem of the present which must be solved...
...though the siege slowed the British, their advance guard had pushed on. The High Command claimed an armored car detachment had spent Christmas Day in an abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...
...bosses of British air power had some encouraging words for their battered countrymen last week. > Relieved of his post as Chief of the R. A. F. Fighter Command in November to undertake a mission to discuss plane production in Canada and the U. S., Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding arrived in Ottawa, told newsmen: "During the past autumn a method has been found to deal with the night-bombing menace and equipment is being rapidly completed. Of course, I'm not at liberty to give you any details of the methods to be used, but I confidently...