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Although the President conferred with Secretary Hull, with Admiral Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with C. V. Whitney, chairman of the board of Pan American Airways (just returned from an air tour of the Pacific), the tension in the East was not as great as it sounded in the press. The Japanese hastily piped down their war talk and one-third of the U. S. Fleet idled in California harbors, giving long overdue shore leave to its sailors. But the fundamental crisis in the East was building up to a decision that could not be indefinitely...
...Washington talked under its breath last week of the possibility that the U. S. might soon find itself at war with Japan, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred in Washington. Before them was not the question of what foreign policy the U. S. should pursue, not the question of whether the U. S. should or should not fight Japan. Their duty was simply to consider the practical problem of what the U. S. Navy should do if called upon...
...soon), they would, on the whole, like to do so sooner rather than later. One of their reasons is that, if Britain falls, the U. S. Navy's biggest potential enemy will soon be in the Atlantic. Therefore they would, in cold-blooded terms, prefer to liquidate the fleet of their No. 2 potential enemy, Japan, before they have to face a second threat. In war undertaken in order to keep Japan out of Dutch and British possessions in the Orient, the U. S. would almost certainly have Britain as an ally, a fact which would provide additional insurance...
This attitude came into the open in Britain for the first time last week. Its emergence was due to three things: the amazing tenacity of the R. A. F. (see col. 1) the gales of autumn whisking the skirts of the Channel, and the reluctance of the Italian Fleet to do anything but play peekaboo. For over a year Britons had seen one victory after another go the enemy's way. Last week for the first time they thought they saw a chance of carrying the war to the enemy...
...Mussolini, dominate the Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt to extend his control down the west shore of the Black Sea, but that is an opportunity he can only wait and hope...