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...given the choice between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the U. S. Fleet has no trouble making up its mind. In the Pacific it protects U. S. interests far over the horizon; if withdrawn from the Pacific it abandons not only its own but other people's territory to the Japanese...
...British Fleet ceases to control the Atlantic, the U. S. Fleet cannot stay away without endangering the security of the U. S. itself...
...Fleet-and, by Navy verdict, the best CINCUS since showy, well-loved Rear Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves...
Last week Admiral Richardson was somewhere in the Pacific with the Fleet...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...