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More welcome to Chief of Staff Malin Craig than a huge air fleet is the money for other Army material. He estimates that he now needs at least $140,000,000 to equip properly the Regular Army's 174,300 officers & men, and 200,000 National Guardsmen & Reserves who would comprise an Initial Protective Force of 400,000-the Army to bear the first brunt of war while drafted citizens are being trained. The Roosevelt estimates (including the "educational" $32,000,000) would just about fill out General Craig's minimum program...
Once East of the Panama Canal the Pacific Fleet will be joined by two new aircraft carriers, four battleships, seven light cruisers, seven destroyers of the newly formed Atlantic Squadron. A cardinal principle in Navy strategy has long been that "the Fleet" should largely remain together, ready to move as a unit and at maximum strength to any threatened point. Whether the Atlantic Squadron is to grow into a separate Fleet is a matter of dispute...
Decision on that point may be reached after this year's maneuvers, devoted to "Fleet Problem XX," the defense of the eastern shores of the U. S. and (in theory) the Republics of Latin America. An invading "White" fleet will try to outwit defending "Blacks," capture an operating base near the U. S. or Central America. This is no impractical game. Without such a base in Bermuda, the Bahamas or the West Indies, no European invader can get far in the Western Hemisphere. How much of a fleet is necessary in the Atlantic to prevent a foreign navy from...
...back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more of her crew...
...knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...