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Congress since 1934 has let the Navy: 1) build up from relative decrepitude to a strong fleet of 301 combat ships, inferior in tonnage only to Great Britain's; 2) get to work on 62 more, plan 63 others; 3) acquire 1,780 of 3,000 projected planes. The chronically neglected Army got started later in 1937. Up to last week it had at hand or on order : >- 227,000 of its 280,000 authorized...
...What limits the power of a fleet is not the number of men, it is the number of ships. What limits the power of an air force is the number of planes. What will limit in the future the power of a land army will not be the number of men, it will be the number and power of its war engines...
...Dutch and Belgian ships not caught at home by the Germans were available for the Allies' merchant fleet. These additions, together with tonnage contributed gladly by Norway, less gladly by the fretful, fearful Danes, added about one-third to the Allies' merchant marine and put them so far ahead of present requirements that they could last week reduce charter rates...
...doddering old Andrew Bonar Law some life insurance, became the Prime Minister's closest friend, later "Canadian eye witness" at the front during World War 1 and in 1918 Minister of In formation and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1917 The Beaver began making a huge Fleet Street fortune by giving London a cockeyed version of low-brow U. S. journalism. "I have all the money any man can want!" Lord Beaver brook likes to boast, slapping his trouser pocket for dramatic emphasis while conservative Britons shudder...
...cancelling of the project is apparently due to the fact that the fleet manoeuvres in the Pacific may not be held on account of the war. At present the fleet is being held at Honolulu...