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...under the giddy surface there was talk of trouble. Some of it was economic -about the huge copra crop, for instance, cut off from European markets by World War II. But most of the talk naturally concerned Japan. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
...projected U. S. bases: for the Army a plane base on Long Bird Island, for the Navy a seaplane base, naval base and garrison area on St. David's Island, the use of several small islands near by for ammunition storage. From there it can spot a hostile fleet advancing against any North Atlantic port...
Elimination of Air Marshal Boyd probably meant little or no delay in Britain's follow-up of her great naval coup at Taranto last fortnight, when Fleet Air Arm fliers knocked holes in half of Italy's battle line, or in new British pressure on Marshal Graziani's time-marking expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled...
Again, to say "the surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility" is sheer speculation and cannot be used as a reasoned argument on either side. Recall how so many misjudged the action of the French fleet...
Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, former Commander in Chief of Japan's Combined Fleet: "It will be constructed in several stages. In the first stage, the sphere that Japan demands includes Manchukuo, China, Indo-China, Burma, Straits Settlements, Netherlands Indies, New Caledonia, New Guinea, many islands in the West Pacific, Japan's mandated islands and the Philippines. Australia and the rest of the East Indies can be included later." Hinodé: "When will Japan and America fight...