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Everybody had refused. Industrialists refused to speed up production; Communists refused to work; the Military Command refused to think; the Government refused...
...first advised Lady MacRobert that her son, Sir Alasdair, 25, had crashed in England. The second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply...
...Navy's high command cleared its decks for offensive action this week. A shake-up in the top drawer put an airman alone at the top. It also finally put the U.S. fleets under the command of the Navy's toughest "sundowners" and one of the most offensive-minded officers...
...this, the President jerked his friend, white-haired, spectacled Admiral Harold R. Stark, out of his job as Chief of Naval Operations (since 1939) and sent him off to London. There, with his four-star rank, he will command U.S. Naval forces operating in European waters (almost none). The change gave Stark's operations functions to boot-tough, 63-year-old Admiral Ernest Joseph King...
Since Dec. 20 bald, lean "Rey" King had been Commander in Chief, United States Fleet. He had been brought to Washington from command of the Atlantic fleet, given more authority than any CINCUS ever had before. Submarine man, naval aviator and onetime Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral King is air-minded. Thus, twice in two weeks, the President, in military shakeups, had emphasized air warfare...