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...have gone along all these years believing that I saw from the forward fire control of the U.S.S. Florida the surrender of the German fleet off the Firth of Forth on Nov. 21, 1918. I had a distinct recollection of shivering at four o'clock of a November morning and trying to analyze an empty feeling in my stomach as I looked down on turrets swinging menacingly toward the swift grey streaks on the horizon that were the Hindenberg, the Seydlitz, the von der Tann, etc., of the Imperial German Navy...
...TIME has set me right, and I am grateful. It all happened at Scapa Flow, under the lonely kirk spire at Kirkcaldy. By any chance, do you suppose, was it at Scapa Flow that the Germans scuttled their fleet after waiting under the guns of the Grand Fleet to find out what the Peace Conference would...
TIME, Feb. 8, p. 36, the German High Seas Fleet surrendered to the Grand Fleet, not at Scapa Flow, but in the Firth of Forth. I know, because I was there...
Left. By Admiral William Sowden Sims, Wartime commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters. an estate valued at less than $3,000; in Newport...
...Twenty-four hours after the Nazi salute in Buckingham Palace, jittery Fleet Street was bandying completely groundless rumors that the Italian Ambassador had given King George the Fascist salute, the Soviet Ambassador had raised a clenched fist at His Majesty in the orthodox Communist salute. London's Laborite Daily Herald went haywire with a speedily disproved scare story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop was in course of installing at his Embassy the most powerful radio broadcasting station next to those of the British Government. All that had happened was that the German Embassy recently put up an impressive looking aerial...