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...really a mulish effort to hang on to a happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...
...landed on Makin Island, was dark and rainy. The surf was high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his left index finger on a piece of coral. But the Marines, their faces and hands daubed green to blend with the foliage, all got ashore...
...past-by Secretary Knox as well as the admirals-has been built on the Jutland-Trafalgar tradition of great fleet battles, meeting enemy line to line in a great slugging match. But sea battles are now fought by aircraft while the fleets lie over the horizon (cf. Coral Sea and Midway) and the fleet's main job is to keep the sea lanes open...
...Midway and in the Coral Sea, the U.S. Navy has done some magnificent fighting in World War II. In Washington the Secretary of the Navy has also turned in a magnificent performance within his native limitations. He has courage-he did not try to cover up the bungling which was responsible for Pearl Harbor-and he has energy, which he gives to his job without stint. As the U.S. is now organized for war he may be doing as well as any Secretary could. Some day he may even give his Navy Department a reorganization-and continue...
...place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward for foresight when he was able to file his battle dispatches from the very shores of the Coral...