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...listed the enemies: Germany, Italy, Japan. Now came the U. S. supporters: Britain, Greece, China, and-in a significant lone paragraph, this sentence -"In the Pacific is our Fleet...
Laureate of the Royal Navy is Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood, 72, an oldtime gunnery officer who retired in 1919, but still writes for the Fleet. His poem The Laws of the Navy takes precedence among Navy men even over Kipling's If, hangs embellished in most officers' messes. At Christmas this year, a number of R. N. officers issued as their greeting cards copies of a new Hopwood opus entitled Secret Orders, celebrating the arrival in British waters of the 50 old U. S. destroyers...
...encircled men tried to run for it, thousands at a time. As they fled on the coast road around the rim of Cyrenaica toward Marshal Graziani's main fortified base at Tobruch, 70 miles west, the R. A. F. and the mechanized British attacked them and occasionally fleet units shelled the road. At length the Bardia troops resigned themselves to being bottled up, praying for rescue...
...British were out, not to capture territory, but to smash Graziani once & for all. Their chance of doing so with some 40,000 men, of whom by last week they had lost relatively few, was enormously enhanced by the crushing power of their fleet's big guns, so easy to move from place to place, so easy (apparently) to defend against Italian planes...
...smaller fry who make up most of the industry were not production-minded. Rich, pink-cheeked Bomber Builder Reuben Fleet of Consolidated Aircraft, sensing the uncomfortable pressure of his biggest customer (the Navy) complained of the "risky margin" of 2¼% at which he might be forced to make planes. Having got some new plant as a gift from the British, many planemakers wanted a similar gift from the U. S. By year's end, U. S. aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries...