Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Gave baldish, hard-working Lewis Compton of Metuchen, N. J. a job which the President and three other Roosevelts have held. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt chose Mr. Compton at the insistence of the Navy high command and Secretary Charles Edison. Messrs. Edison and Compton came out of New Jersey together to serve with early New Deal agencies, went to the Navy Department together when Mr. Edison became Assistant Secretary in 1937. When & if Charles Edison resigns to run for Governor of New Jersey, they will presumably go out together. Reason: in the team of Edison & Compton...
...German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...
Last week the German High Command announced that "defensive measures" had destroyed the Starfish and the Undine. The British Admiralty soon capped this by admitting that the Seahorse was also lost...
...dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should be placed under operational control of the Navy at once and its headquarters housed in the Admiralty. . . . The Admiralty must have control of all aircraft which work with and against ships...
...even among Navy men, for temperance of expression. And his effort to expand the Fleet's air arm into an autonomous naval air force on land and sea, is not likely to prevail over the dynamics of the man in charge of R. A. F.'s Coastal Command: bald, craggy-browed Air Marshal Sir Frederick William ("Ginger") Bowhill. This fearsome character, whose duty it is to protect British ports and shipping and to attack the enemy in, under and over the sea by loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously proud of his command...