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...East Asia. "The Philippine Islands," wrote Lea, "bear the same strategic relationship to the Southern Asian coast as the Japanese islands do to the Northern. . . . Without the Philippines, Japan's dominion in Asian seas will be no more than tentative, and her eventual domination or destruction will depend upon who holds these islands." Considering U.S. unpreparedness in the Philippines as of the time he was writing, Homer Lea said the islands could be captured by Japanese as easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only...
Admiral Yamamoto must have been trying a little Japanese wool-pulling when he surprised everyone at the London Naval Conference by defining the torpedo as a "defensive weapon." "Doesn't it depend, sir," asked a U.S. naval technician, "at which...
...character leapt Alvin Ward Vogtle, Birmingham coal shipper who is also president of the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards, to defend the railroads' action. Said he: "The increase should be not only liberal but generous...our very lives and freedom depend on the railroads....The railroads in the past two emergency years have done a better job than any other industry....There must be adequate revenue for property and service maintenance to provide for the highest degree of efficiency." He opposed a compromise suggestion-selective increases aimed at consumer and nonwar traffic-on the grounds that it would...
...These tests consist of the Scholastic Aptitude Test on the morning of Saturday, April 11, and a series of achievement tests in languages, sciences, and social sciences, on that afternoon. Choice among these latter tests will depend upon the student's preparatory courses in his final school year and his plans for college...
...draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...