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Dreamy members of the House subcommittee which handles Naval appropriations asked the Navy Department to draw up estimates for 65,000-ton leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...
...land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...
...potent fighters but as ships capable of protecting bombing missions beyond the ordinary range of German pursuits. The whole Helgoland performance, said the Germans, proved the futility of attempting to bomb without fighter escorts-a notable admission since the Germans have used no escorts in their bombing of British Fleet bases...
...condition to engage even the light British cruisers, Hitler had nothing to lose by allowing her to be interned-unless he expects to lose the war, he could expect to recover the interned ship when war is over. World War I had been lost when the Germans scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flow. If Hitler ordered the Spee scuttled merely that his enemies would never lay hands on her, World War II was already half lost in his own head...
Debutasters rated both Tenor Laholm and Soprano Reggiani seaworthy, if not cup-defending, additions to the Metropolitan fleet...