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...past years when the sole use of Uncle Sam's fleet was as a movie locale, it was quite natural for Harvard's Naval Science to be a gentleman's course--a refuge for the major H and the broad A. But today the Navy is steaming full speed ahead, while both instructors and prospective ensigns at Harvard still are dragging anchor. Almost the only ones taking the work seriously are a few martinets who aspire to minor posts of command in the annual review. And recent attempts to improve esprit de corps via beery conviviality are a poor substitute...
Bill's advantage over Lizzie was that he was supported by at least 250 lesser cannon which the British kept crowding in on a semicircle about eight miles deep around Bardia, while other naval guns fired inland from fleet units standing at sea. Lizzie's support was Italian bombing planes which, massing their attack, tried to blast the tightening ring of British force. But the R. A. F. was present, too, with eight-gun fighters against two-gun crates. Mussolini, far away in Rome, decreed that his troops in Bardia must hold out to the end to permit...
...transport and of armored power. "For the purpose of economizing transportation some units covered hundreds of kilometres afoot. . . . We lacked only a complement of motor vehicles which, as you know, were pouring in from the mainland." "Pouring in" was probably a gross exaggeration, considering the work of the British Fleet, which periodically prowled across the Italian sea lane to Libya...
...implication, Graziani further criticized the ability of the much-touted Italian Air Force. With its home bases and production much nearer Africa than were Britain's, this arm was admittedly overwhelmed by R. A. F. when the attack began. The Italian air fleet was bombed in its bases clear west to Castel Benito and Tripoli. In effect it never got off the ground, like the Polish Air Force in September...
...landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World, with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue...