Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throat. Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust that would open Japan's military jugular if delivered...
...small steamer was last week permitted temporarily to put into Beirut, Lebanon, after a wave of suicide and disease among its 650 passengers. Two others were off the Lebanese coast. The ships were part of the fleet of vessels, mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than...
Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...
Died. Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced backhouse), 60, old-time British sea dog and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty from 1938 until his retirement last month because of ill health; in London. Fortnight before his death he was made Admiral of the Fleet by King George...
...term disadvantage and danger of the U. S. The weakness of embargoes against aggressor nations only is that they may lead to near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber and tin. The Japanese might be provoked to raids on American shipping in the Celebes and Java seas and would probably...