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...with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop about "fateful problems," from which he came away "very depressed." By the time he had reached Oslo, he was in a towering funk. "My impressions of Europe are terrifying. . . . Europe is drifting toward war. . . . America will go to war ... if the British Fleet is defeated. . . . I believe we can expect war at any moment. . . . August...
...narrow channel leading through sand dunes to the sea. There was no town near by; the country beyond the lake was devoted to sheep raising. This, said the British Admiral, was the place to build Rumania's great Naval base, home of the dreamed-of Rumanian Black Sea Fleet. It was also a convenient spot for refueling, since it was close to Rumanian oil fields, if the British Navy ever needed...
...intensive bombing-wrecked its communications, its power supply, its waterworks and sanitary facilities until plague stalked the streets and 10,000,000 human beings were thrown into horror-stricken disorder-the British Government might have been forced to make peace even at the cost of surrendering the proud British fleet...
...thick-o'-fog and a drizzle fell in Weymouth Bay one day last week. Quiet in the fog, whispering at anchor, lay scores of great grey ghosts-Britain's reserve fleet, assembled from shipyards throughout the British Isles for royal review. The older salts were pointing and saying: "Remember...
Remember the Iron Duke? A stout old whale, with twelve-inch steel skin.* Forward of her two tall funnels, forward of her bridge-balancing tripod mast, in a heavily armored conning tower, calm little Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, stood giving orders during the biggest battle of them all, Jutland...