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...hero among U. S. military men was a great general, but no expert on the sea. Last week two retired sea dogs, under the White Committee's auspices, added their voices to General Pershing's: Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 until he reached the retirement age of 64 last year, and Admiral William Standley, Chief of Naval Operations from 1933 to 1937. Said Admiral Yarnell at a White Committee rally at Boston: "If Britain loses the war, we will face years of danger, with our nation converted into a huge...
...prefabrication stage (when parts are being designed, ordered, made); 2) actually being built in shipyards; 3) in fitting-out basins, where newly launched hulls are armored and equipped. By last month the U. S. Navy could say that it had thus under construction an additional, enormous fleet, to be completed in the following yearly quotas...
...these totals were deceptively simple; U. S. arithmetic looked better than the total facts. Nobody knew how much or how fast secretive Japan was adding to its fleet-or when and whether the British Navy would fall to enemies of the U. S. As of last week, the U. S.'s "Big Navy" was just big enough to keep its defensive watch in the Pacific and a small squadron in the uncertain Atlantic. Its 15 battleships made up the most powerful battle line of any navy, but the average dreadnought age is 23 years. Three were so far outdated...
...cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall, he is a veteran of artillery, camel cavalry, a general of the Italian Air Fleet. Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without and harassment from within. Britain's recognition of ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as an ally was the signal...
...Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...