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...excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy visits" constantly to other Russian ports. Comrade Litvinoff did not think foreign warships could make courtesy visits to Black Sea ports without incurring suspicion that their purpose was "aggressive." To Turkish proposals that the straits be closed to all submarines, Orator Litvinoff replied that Soviet submarines...
...held first Privy Council and assumed rank of Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Admiral of the Fleet...
...Samuel Hoare that Britain will not abandon Malta. In other words, the wholly inadequate Malta defenses will be maintained as they are, for moral effect. Virtual abandonment of Malta as a main Empire naval base took place months ago when the major units of the British Mediterranean Fleet scuttled off to Alexandria (TIME, Sept...
Britons read with bug-eyes last week that the secret Nazi fleet maneuvers had been observed and reported by a method which smacked of the British Intelligence Service and of smart Sir Samuel Hoare. As a young Intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, ingenious Sam Hoare knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special...
...much so that some British editors spoke of what was under discussion as "the Pirow-Evans Defense Plan." It was supposed to envision, in addition to what Mr. Pirow asked of Great Britain, the following contributions by South Africa: 1) raising of a great South African air battle fleet to back the war-boats of Great Britain in defending the Lifeline of Empire; 2) establishment on a basis for quick conversion into combative use of British commercial air liners constantly winging up and down both the East and West coasts of Africa; 3) erection of munitions plants and factories...