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...understanding does not exist between the Netherlands Government and British Prime Minister Baldwin. It seems incredible that Dutch editors, or editors of any nationality, could possibly believe that an understanding does not exist. But the Anglo-Dutch alliance is not aimed at Japan. On the contrary an Anglo-Dutch fleet in the South Pacific will prove an inestimable aid to the Japanese in the coming Pacific war. England is playing her usual game, gathering up allies for the next struggle. She can count on the assistance of all countries with kings, with the exception of Italy, because of the close...
...made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early," by the aircraft carrier Furious...
...Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, at 2 p. m. off Point Loma. there will be a review of the U. S. fleet. 90 warships and 400 planes. Admiral J. M. Reeves, commander in chief, has designated this combined fleet and air review in honor of the school children of the nation...
Such was the announcement which lay last week on the desks of editors throughout the U. S. Immensely proud of holding what was believed to be the world's first fleet review for children, the Navy planned to mass thousands of them on Ballast Point at the mouth of San Diego Harbor. Its reasons: 1) Admiral Reeves's "intense fondness" for youngsters; 2) His desire "to indoctrinate them in what the Navy means...
...Morgan in a stock deal, John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was "exiled'' from Wall Street about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence so pleased the rulers...