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These are the craft which give the naval air service its long striking arm. Of all types, they offer the greatest threat to the supremacy of surface navies. They are a type which Jack Towers has espoused for years and was able to get the U.S. Navy to accept in quantity only when World War II began...
...tired of the perpetual Russian threat, and also of our inability to exploit Russian resources as completely as we would like. Short of military cooperation, Russia must occupy a position similar to that which Italy occupies now. Then the infiltration of our military experts and technicians would occur without any trouble. We would also know how to get guarantees that nothing would threaten us behind our backs if we were occupied elsewhere...
...acquiescent. They had to see the "peace bloc"-especially Russia's participation in it-before they would believe it. They were rapidly convinced that the China "Incident" had been disastrous and costly enough without tackling The Netherlands East Indies. They were inclined to believe The Netherlands East Indies threat that, if necessary, every oil well, pipeline and refinery would be blown sky-high before the Japanese could get at them. They were also aware that the Japanese might never have even a chance to attack the Indies, that the way might be barred by the U.S. Navy...
...last week, clean of sand, trained westward, and mounted for mobility. To make some of his guns mobile, he had loaded them on to ordinary trucks. He would have been glad to have a few more shielded guns on wheels-Bren carriers and tanks; but with the Axis threat from Libya growing every day, General Marshall-Cornwall knew it was now or never; attack or be attacked...
...championship situation has been poor around Cambridge lately. There is no way of proving our much vaunted academic superiority and our football team hasn't been of Rose Bowl caliber since 1920. Even our chess team, once the strongest threat of our Intercollegiate aggregations, is no longer undefeated. When it becomes obvious, therefore, that in one sport we are consistently among the strongest colleges in the country we should take advantage of that fact to test our crew against the other top-notch colleges and to see if Harvard can't come out on top of the heap...