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...stilling of radios to eliminate inter ference from Navy code messages to the attendant fleet...
...Congress was 150 years old last week and Franklin Roosevelt, as President, was six. Tanned and beaming after his cruise with the fleet, he went from the train that brought him from Charleston, S. C., to the White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
...Navy's hemispheric defense game off the West Indies (TIME, March 6). In such theoretical exercises, said he, theoretical land masses are imagined on the strategy maps where actually there is only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude...
...hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet of shiny big cars for his three children. Any suggestion of economy he took as a slur on his literary abilities...
...French military cooperation, complained that the British attitude of "one ally should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France in case...