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Commander Grady discussed the technique of the navy, showing the importance of the cruiser and the battleship and indicating their relative speeds in comparison with that of the submarine. He gave a brilliant description of the battle of Jutland and the flight of the Germans, drawing from the struggle an example of the necessity of preparedness. "In view of these conditions," Commander Grady stated in closing, "no one should view with apprehension the spending of money on the proposed program...
...Indianapolis, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy tried valiantly to minimize the figures (he quoted only $740,000,000) and to magnify their necessity to the country. He rehearsed the history of U. S. Navy-building since the War, showing how, as the result of waiting hope fully for cruiser limitation as well as capital ship limitation, the U. S. had fallen far short of the parity agreed to with Britain at Washington in 1922, and would fall farther short if replacements were not soon authorized. He showed how auxiliaries, which are all that the new program called...
...battle force, massed inside the cruiser screen by divisions, each battleship attended by a school of destroyers and submarines...
...Secretary Wilbur submitted the "Big Navy" bill to Congress, the boom of billions echoed far and wide. At home and abroad the U. S. has been hotly accused of seeking revenge for the failure of last year's Geneva Conference, at which British and U. S. ideas on cruiser construction became deadlocked...
...shortest day of the year, December 21. It was dark from 4 in the afternoon till 9.30 the next morning. It was only a pirate's chance. We run. Then we get out of the blockade and thank God for our escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain, but the name of my ship was wrong. It was my hardest examination, and it took a bottle of 100-year-old brandy to help me pass...