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...both sides are doing. One is Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, a country boy from Kentucky who made good as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and is chief umpire in the Navy game. Another is one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, to whom the cruiser Houston was assigned so that he could rove through the battle area, keeping tabs by radio...
...Against Bugs. William Leahy says all the U. S. has to do to keep on good naval footing is to maintain its Navy at its present relative standing in battleships and aircraft carriers, continue its cruiser and destroyer construction program, sharply accelerate its aircraft and submarine program, step up its aircraft procurement to 500 planes per year. Object: to stay just behind Great Britain in heavy categories, come well up with the authoritarians in lighter ships. The job of building ships is therefore highly important to the U. S. Navy, equally important to the U. S. citizens who must...
...Port Mahon, Minorca's chief town, the British cruiser Devonshire called last week. On board was the Count of San Luis, a Franco negotiator. The British arranged a conference at which Loyalist leaders were told of an impending attack, were threatened with starvation even if the attack were repulsed. Upshot: the red-&-gold Rebel flag was soon unfurled on Minorca and the Devonshire sailed away toward Marseille with 450 Loyalists who had feared to stay on the island...
PERPIGNAN--Insurgent warships headed by the cruiser Canarias appeared off the French coast tonight, supposedly to intercept Loyalist officials if they should attempt to reach Valencia...
...early hours of the crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...