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...stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...
...indicated that they leaned more to increasing the numbers of anti-aircraft guns on the ships. Whatever the method they eventually decided on, they had substantially conceded Charles Edison's point. It would be a long job, in any case. To rearm or rearmor ships now with the Fleet would take five to six years, the Navy Department announced. In that case, the seven months lost between May and December 1940 probably made no difference to the Navy's high command. But anxious civilians took the words out of Harold Stark's mouth: "Dollars cannot buy yesterday...
Third to the chopping block was Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of Staff and Under Secretary of the Navy. If Albania was bad, what has happened to the Italian Fleet is horrible - whittled down in each & every encounter it has had with the British. To replace Cavagnari, Mussolini chose Admiral Arturo Riccardi, with Admiral Angelo Jacchino taking the new post of Commander of the Fleet...
...British have done a little better in the market for second-hand ships. Since the war began, England and Canada have bought or arranged to buy 168 old vessels totaling 627,600 tons (deadweight) from U. S. owners (including 36 vessels from World War I's laid-up fleet). Deals are under way now for 45 more, and others may follow. Since almost any seagoing vessel is adequate for use in convoys, which travel slowly, Britain is better off buying old ships at low prices than new ones at high prices...
Even making due allowance for an unconscionable jocularity, there was a deliberate recklessness in Professor Seavey's suggestion that we wipe out immediately the Japanese fleet and a deliberate casualness in Professor Elliott's statement that war was no worse than traffic in Harvard Square that made it hard to believe this was a serious discussion of the most serious of all proposals. The questions from the students were sincere and intelligent, but they were turned aside alternately with facetiousness from Professor Seavey and with a threatening truculence by Professor Elliot, who attributed to his questioners the most discreditable motives...