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...Army and Navy went ahead with plans for a mock "attack" on the Atlantic seaboard by a large "raiding fleet," to be repelled by planes and submarines...
With one hand he would beckon the Dictators to a peace conference table, with the other he would make the largest gesture of "force to force" that he knew how: move the Battle Fleet back into the Pacific where it could offset any Japanese menace to Great Britain, France and The Netherlands in the Orient...
...avoid upsetting the stockmarket, announcement of the Fleet order was withheld until after noon Saturday (see p. 17). But at 10:30 a.m. correspondents covering the State Department were told to go over to the White House offices. Secretary Hull crossed the street ahead of the newshawks. Also seated in the President's office when the press was admitted were UnderSecretary Welles and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When 25 correspondents had filed in (usually there are more than 100), President Roosevelt asked in surprise: "Where are they all?" The White House had outdone itself...
...give Britons some idea of what might be in store for them later. The Admiralty was evidently convinced that German military leaders would try out the Douhet "lightning stroke air attack" theory of war and that the first stroke would be an attempt to immobilize the British Home Fleet...
...playing deep when Lupe dropped a bunt and beat it out. Hoye's sacrifice was thrown into centerfield as Desmond, Columbia backstop, vainly attempted to nip the traveling Lupien at second. Harvard's next gesture was a bunt by Tully, which pitcher Cerny fielded, only to find Stabl's fleet first-sacker already at third...