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...existence of [Navy Department] reports on the vulnerability of an attacking fleet is not denied. I have been told that I could see the reports if I would keep them secret. . . . Obviously the secret is one that is being kept from the American people. . . . The same amount of money now being sought for big battleships, invested in pursuit planes and bombers, would make the United States invulnerable. If that is not true, let it be proved untrue...
Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...appearances, three navies. In 1775 the Continental Congress organized a national navy and appointed a committee to regulate its activity. But the committee, like many another at the time, had weak hands, and because of this and an absence of funds, the navy engaged in no fleet action. It did, however, indirectly determine the chief policy of our Navy Department until modern times. For the sea force, which at no point had more than three thousand men and twenty ships, made its objective the attacking of British commerce, while in later wars it was the protection of our commerce from...
...with the Japanese. Japanese ladies, 150 from the Tokyo High School, well versed in English, are now in Shanghai for the sole purpose of being better acquainted with foreigners. Further details regarding interviews etc. will be furnished . . . in the office of the Secretary to the Commander of the Naval Fleet in Shanghai. "Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken away each day. In the event of Foreigners wishing to employ...
...then purportedly cut the last rutted Leftist supply road, isolating 10,000 Leftist soldiers. But the garrison resisted stubbornly. This week, as men of both sides fought hand to hand on Teruel's outskirts. Rightists opened a bombardment of the city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles in months. Sent down in flames by a Leftist machine gunner, General Franco's officers admitted, was the Rightists' ace flyer, Carlos de Haya. While Rightists claimed the capture or destruction...