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...recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen-as commander of the U. S. Navy base in Wartime England, as U. S. high commissioner in post-War Turkey, as chief of the Asiatic Fleet...
...flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five...
...cable Carol II thanked George V for the courtesy visit in Rumanian waters of a British cruiser and two destroyers. In reply the King-Emperor said nothing but said it with marked cordiality?happy omen of the new, better Anglo-Rumanian entente now forming...
...positive side Mr. Hoover ordered the U. S. S. Pensacola, potent and up-to-date cruiser of 10,000 tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
Should U. S. refugees have to be evacuated from Rio de Janeiro it would take the Pensacola steaming at her terrific cruiser speed of 33 knots four days to reach them from Guantanamo...