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...training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
...examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released, and Peyre reportedly set sail for South America. Meanwhile, General Mast had retired, and General Revers remained "at the disposition of the Prime Minister." That was all the government knew about the case, Bidault concluded...
...across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...