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...dusk his train sped north and east to Manhattan where he arrived after midnight. A few hours' sleep in his East 65th Street home and he was up & away to review the U. S. Fleet aboard the cruiser Indianapolis...
...Last autumn the Japanese grand fleet maneuvered in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, between Guam and the Philippines. The U. S. Navy ruefully admits it has "never had the nerve" to exercise in Far Eastern waters...
...Fleet was returned to the Atlantic largely because President Roosevelt wanted the East to get the commercial benefit at least until late autumn of its $1,000,000 monthly payroll. As Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that...
...design but largely by chance, Admiral Reeves becomes the first air man to command the Fleet. Usually the Battle Force commander, who will be Admiral Brumby when Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots...
...admiral's life at sea is not a gregarious one, lacking the close fellowship of the ward room of his younger days. As he steamed north last week to salute his President and take command of the fleet, Admiral Reeves had plenty of time for reflection. In his mind's eye, already he could see his red Battle 'Force flag changed for the blue four-starred ensign of the Commander-in-Chief. Already he could anticipate the ceaseless naval communications on onion skin paper addressed not to COMBATFOR. his old title, but to CINCUS...