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...Security, had it photo-stated, sold the copy to a member of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. This book, first published in 1916 and since revised, was, the Navy Department insisted, exclusively for responsible officers. Divulgence of its contents, officials implied, might necessitate a complete revamping of U. S. Fleet strategy...
...Britain's claim to "belligerent rights" to send a full fleet into the Black Sea in case of war with a Black Sea power, (i.e., Russia) had to be chopped because of Balkan outcries (TIME, July...
...Russia's Black Sea Fleet, kept out of the Straits for almost a century, won free passage to the Mediterranean in peace time...
...Nazi authorities promptly hit the ceiling on reading the draft of the proposed Montreux pact, claimed that its concessions to Russia completely upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...
...29th running of the longest fresh-water yacht race in the world, the Chicago Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...