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...rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time a President had ever reviewed the Fleet off New York Harbor, the first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy's traditional parade ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise...
...battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported a United Press correspondent, "have demonstrated that the Panama Canal can be captured or destroyed by an enemy fleet and that a Japanese-American naval war under present conditions is virtually impossible. ... In demonstrating that the canal could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would...
Policy. As erroneous as the Press's interpretation of the Fleet's exercises is the public conception of the reason for the Fleet's recall from the Pacific to the Atlantic. To most laymen, Naval Policy is a secret code formulated by a few admirals in Washington who spend their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang...
...matter of national policy, President Hoover sent the Fleet to the Pacific when war loomed in the Orient three years ago. The Navy was glad to go, not because it was itching for a fight, but because the Fleet trains better on the Pacific where the climate is milder and exercise grounds superior. Also for training purposes the Navy prefers to keep the Scouting and Battle Forces together no matter where they are based. No football coach works the backfield out on one field, the line on another. During the remainder of the Hoover regime the Fleet was kept...
...York, May 31--Business got so brisk aboard the U. S. Boggs, communication ship of the Fleet, that the captain had to call a halt on messages to sailors. One girl sent twelve messages to twelve sailors--on different ships, another asked a gob to "Phone at once, Pete's out of town...