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...Carolina class was begun before the Navy had waked up, presumably was altered in time. The North Carolina has 20 5-in. guns, an undisclosed number of 1.1 pom-poms to ward off air attack (the five-inchers are also designed for use against torpedo carriers). This anti-aircraft armament represents an enormous advance over the Navy's last battleship, West Virginia (commissioned in 1923), which carries only eight 5-in. anti-aircraft guns...
...fascist tanks, but that the people lost. Dutch students may riot, yet Hitler crushes Holland with barely a contemptuous glance in their direction. You do not win this war by snowballing brown-shirted legions, as the Czech people did, not so long ago; you win by bombing the Nazi armament works. The "power of the people" could not save Salonika for the Greeks...
This morning the cruiser Orion (7,215 tons, 6-in. armament) had broached into the expected path of the enemy fleet, reported by air reconnaissance to have divided into a northern squadron-two battleships covered by cruisers and destroyers -and a southern squadron-one battleship similarly covered. The Orion was to try to decoy the southern squadron into a night trap. Toward evening the main British force followed the flagship Warspite into the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece toward the hoped-for area of conflict. A few light Greek vessels put out to join them...
...Maas felt good and looked it. After the Senate had passed a $3,446,384,000 Navy appropriation bill for 1942, he told why: five of the 17 battleships to be built for the U. S.'s two-ocean Navy will be 65,000-tonners (total displacement including armament and armor). They were contracted for last September, will cost about $130,000,000 apiece...
...last week also, for the first time since the war began, the Munitions Minister gave out a few facts and figures about armaments production. Still more significant was the fact that the Canadian press generally opened up a bit on the Government. Not only critical of armament production, they demanded that Mackenzie King strengthen his Cabinet, asked for fuller explanations of where all the millions were going. Until the Post stuck its neck out, the Canadian press had been the most "patriotically" docile in the free world...