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Wherever he was, Admiral King was in dangerous waters. If there was any doubt about the danger, the Nazis' Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in Berlin removed it when he defied Ernie King's fleet to pass from patrol to all-out convoy, and said: "Nobody can expect a German warship to look on while an American warship communicates the position of a German man-of-war to the British Admiralty. Such procedure must be regarded...
...Temper? Don't fool with nitroglycerin," the Naval Academy's Lucky Bag recorded of Ernie King when he graduated in 1901 (after a mid-school interlude of active duty during the Spanish-American War, on patrol off the Atlantic Coast). That temper subsequently hindered his Navy career, made enemies, often saddened friends who had the utmost faith in his capacities. Testifying before Congressional committeemen, he has been known to fly into ugly, inarticulate rage. Such incidents did him no good, either with Congress or with the Navy command...
...when he had been a captain for five years, he qualified as a naval aviator, then had a series of air commands until he was given the new Atlantic Patrol Force last year. Characteristically, he did not fare so well on shore duty, when he was first Assistant Chief, and later Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (after famed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett went down with the dirigible Akron...
Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...
...started gardens on the hills above the harbor. The genial Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, regularly aims soothing nothings at the U.S., politely swears to fight at Vichy's order. Rather than risk an ugly incident, the British last November gave up their watch outside the harbor, left the patrol to two U.S. destroyers. Whether Admiral King sends a stronger task force to Fort de France is strictly up to Vichy's Admiral Darlan, Hitler, and the patience of Franklin Roosevelt...