Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hammered the lesson home. It was easier, now, to see that reports of Japanese carrier losses in the Coral Sea and at Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third of their destroyers...
...Dangerous Situation. The New York Times's military analyst, Hanson Baldwin, who flew from the U.S. to the Solomons to look for himself, aptly described the Jap attack on the Marines as one prong of a three-pronged offensive. A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range...
Guinea toward Port Moresby, key to Australia. The third was moving down the southern Gilberts, possibly toward the Fijis. Wrote Correspondent Baldwin: "The American-held portion of the southeastern Solomons stood like a bastion in the path of these enemy operations...
...general position was "as if the Marines held Jones Beach and the rest of Long Island were loosely dominated by the enemy." On dark nights the Japs landed more and more troops. After U.S. tanks slaughtered 700 Japs, 700 men replaced the dead. The battle, as told by Baldwin...
First seed of the grievance was sown following Britain's only general (nationwide) strike in 1926, when Baldwin's flustered Parliament passed the Trades Disputes Act. The Act outlawed all general strikes. Because its terms were so vague, it allowed the courts scope for declaring almost any strike illegal. The trade unions found it an elastic defense against their plans and programs...