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...President's reasons was pretty well demolished last week by none other than Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations. In hearings on the regular Navy Bill, the biggest in 16 years, he was asked whether the Atlantic Coast could be defended with almost the entire fleet in the Pacific. Looking and speaking like the Navy's No. 1 Admiral, which he is, the Chief of Naval Operations replied frankly: "I can only answer that by saying that in the event of an attack being made on the United States coast on the Atlantic side the fleet...
...conversations between the U. S. Navy and the British Admiralty certainly involved no definite commitments, but it is known that the President with traditional interest in naval affairs has displayed a lively curiosity on how the U. S. and British fleets would maneuver in case of trouble in the Pacific-meaning with Japan. The Navy Department never speaks of a second-to-none fleet, which implies rivalry with Britain, but of one equal to the combined navies of any two Fascist powers-meaning Japan and an ally...
...sticky July day last year this letter arrived at Cavalcade's Fleet Street office from Hove, Sussex: Wherever the Roman Catholic Church was founded, its behaviour during the last few years has been no recommendation, for they evidently show their Christianity by massacre and slaughter both of defenceless mothers, and their own people, as seen in Abyssinia, Ireland and Spain. I would rather be a Moslem...
Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese soldiers (20,000 by execution...