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...preceded and helped precipitate the War. To be sure, British naval wiseacres pointed out that so much of Britain's navy must be kept in far corners of the world that Adolf Hitler is actually demanding naval parity with the force His Majesty's Government can normally deploy in the North Sea. The great thing, many Britons felt, was that a direct and friendly naval pact with Germany ought to go a long way to keep Adolf Hitler from wanting to build a superior navy by stealth and subterfuge in Germany, as he is rapidly building a superior...
...common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King of Kings was to conclude two years ago with emissaries of Dictator Kemal a pact, by which Persia yielded to Turkey certain bits of her northwest frontier which made it possible for the two states so to deploy their border patrols that the Kurdish tribesmen could be nabbed at-their raiding and the scourge of banditry wiped out. Last week Turkish and Persian statesmen hailed this achievement in toast after brimming toast. They then talked behind their ever-itching palms about British oil, by all odds the juiciest...
Black v. Blue, This mimic action was only a local prelude to the Navy's main maneuver. At midnight, Feb. 9, Admiral Clark was to deploy his Scouting Force off the California coast in an attempt to strike through the Navy's first-line defense, the Battle Force. Under every warlike condition except actual fire, he was allowed seven days to develop and execute his strategy...
...conviction that a war between Italy and Serbia, if Bulgaria and Rumania can be prevented from attacking Serbia, will be a short one. The Serbs are good fighters, and, fighting in their own territory, will administer a stinging defeat to the Italian armies. Italy will not be able to deploy great forces to fight Serbia...
Bucharest. In that eventuality we shall hold in readiness an army of perhaps 100,000 men at the Bulgarian frontier and deploy it to the advantage of our northern ally (Russia...