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...regards war with Japan as inevitable eventually. Some sources, bluntly assuming that Hitler will invade The Netherlands before the end of June, further expect that Japan will seize the moment to move in on the Indies. It would therefore not be surprising if the tag end of U. S. Fleet maneuvers now in progress found a squadron near Manila. Well Cordell Hull knows that Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi, visiting him, sees over Mr. Hull's shoulder the U. S. Pacific Fleet. But it is still a secret whether Mr. Hull himself sees the Fleet when he looks around...
...Stavanger airport, only big field in craggy Norway's west. Down went a magnesium flare and, in a few moments, up in a great bang and blaze went chunks of concrete runways, hangars and transport planes. For 80 minutes an undetermined number of ships of the British Fleet several miles off shore hurled an infernal amount of steel and high explosive onto the Stavanger field, while Allied bombers attacked at Trondheim to ground Nazi planes there. The British ships got away before full daylight, said the British Admiralty, under a shower of 115 German bombs of which only...
...recited a two-day score as follows: two British cruisers sunk, two heavily damaged, a battleship damaged, a heavy destroyer and a submarine sunk, a large transport bombed with severe loss of life near Narvik. Preceding and succeeding Nazi claims would have accounted for 61 units of the British Fleet in the past fortnight. Of this list, the British admitted losing only four destroyers and one submarine...
...wire to the Berlin Big Shot expressing "firm confidence that the German people will victoriously stand the test to which they have been subjected." He mobilized his entire Navy, and sent six battleships, 19 cruisers and about 75 destroyers into the Aegean Sea conveniently close to Salonika. His submarine fleet, estimated at 135 (the largest of any country in the world), went to the midMediterranean and lower Adriatic. Rejected reservists of the 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 classes were called for service. "Laborers" in steel hats continued to arrive in Albania. The Scandinavian campaign was represented in the press...
...Japanese are taking time off from the China incident to build four, eight or even twelve super-battleships, and suggestions that we should do the same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from...