Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under such conditions sea battle was bound to be diffuse. In the usual foul weather up & down the Scandinavian coast, the first problem of Britain's Navy was to find the enemy, to avoid his mines and submarines, to brush aside his air craft and come to grips, here, there, anywhere with detachments of the German Fleet and its convoys...
...snow, night and, above all, naval secrecy obscured the problem. Britain's "heavy stuff" (battleships and battle cruisers) lay over the horizon in the North Sea waiting for cruisers to call the cues. Cruisers in turn waited for destroy ers, airplanes, submarines to set the stage...
Terming the second World War a continuation of the first imperialist struggle, Quill branded as foolish any participation by the United States before the problem of our own 9,000,000 unemployed has been solved...
...third boat before Easter vacation, Bus Curwen has finally wrested the stroke position from Harry Fowler. Dave Challinor, Jerry Prince, and Dave Glass in seven, six, and five seem pretty certain of their positions at present, but the seating in the bow four presents a ticklish problem...
Bert Haines is confronted with a similar problem in choosing the first 150-lb. boat which must conform to weight regulations as an added worry. At present Abbott's crew has the upper hand and appears headed for the lead unless Means's eight shows something next week...