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...Reddy." Admiral Leigh is no naval specialist. Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, retired, who preceded him as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed...
Professionally outranking the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet is the Chief of Naval Operations at Washington. On March 1 Admiral William Veazie Pratt is automatically retired from that No. 1 Navy job. Ordinarily Admiral Leigh would hope to aspire to this departmental position, were it not for two facts: the appointment is for a four-year tour of duty; Admiral Leigh is due to be retired for age Sept. 1, 1934. Likely candidates for Chief of Naval Operations: Admiral McNamee who this week defends the U. S. from the Black "enemy"; Vice Admiral William H. Standley, commander...
Small Navy. The Pacific concentration incident to Fleet Problem No. 14 emptied other U. S. territorial waters of first-line fighting craft. The only battleships left on the Atlantic coast were the New Mexico, Idaho and Mississippi and they were at navy yards being modernized. The brand new cruiser Indianapolis was to have joined the fleet in the Pacific after its shakedown run. Last week she was ordered to Philadelphia Navy Yard for repairs when it was found that her 8-in. gun fire had jarred loose some of her plates...
...condition rather than the disposition of the U. S. Fleet that makes Big-Navy men wring their hands in despair. Again & again has Secretary of the Navy Adams complained of "our already seriously impaired position relative to other signatories to the naval treaties." Fortnight ago the Navy Department reported to the Senate that 135 ships would have to be built in less than four years to bring the U. S. up to treaty limits. Last week Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced preparation of a naval building bill which would require $600,000,000 in ten years...
Last week Britain announced that she is building cruisers as fast as the naval treaty allows-three per year. In the U. S. Navy's mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal...