Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl. Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, after a conference in Washington, was on leave at Annapolis. In a Manhattan theatre, during the 2,284th performance of Tobacco Road, a voice from the stage advised all U. S. sailors in the house to get back to their ships. While 40-odd obeyed, the audience stood, cheered, wondered...
What Franklin Roosevelt had done was order the Battle Fleet-the fighting unit of the whole U. S. Fleet-back to its "normal operating areas" in the Pacific. But he had left in the Atlantic (and for the New York World's Fair) much more than the small Atlantic Squadron normally on eastern duty. By the order, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 23 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, six submarines would stay behind. Westward were to go eight battleships, 15 cruisers, 43 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 20 auxiliaries...
Pondering motive as well as strategy, naval diplomats reasoned that the order 1) was not a peace gesture designed to back up the President's peace message last week (see p. 13) by moving the Battle Fleet 3,000 miles farther westward from Europe; 2) probably was a threat to Japan, should the time come for it to fall in with European war plans, and 3) certainly was a tangible reminder to Hitler & Mussolini that the U. S. has a potent force to be moved here or there at the President's command...
...formally lining up Spain in their anti-Comintern Pact last fortnight, Italy and Germany welded an iron ring around France. Last week France and her ally, Britain, struck back by beginning at long last to forge an even bigger one around the Axis powers. Europe had not been so close to a general war since an armistice was declared to the last one, November...
...found that during his absence a formidable black-uniformed army of 100,000 had come into being, that the Führer's affections had been shifted away from the 2,000,000 Storm Troops to the 55, that the Storm Troops were being relegated back to the gutter whence they had originally sprung. And although Leader Himmler was nominally Leader Roehm's subordinate, actually Heinrich Himmler took his orders direct from Adolf Hitler himself...