Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present bill provides exceptions virtually excusing the U. S. from mandatory neutrality in any Latin-American...
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, received the ultimatum on his flagship the cruiser Augusta, anchored off Chinwangtao, some 1,500 miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
...Japanese, and has probably saved U. S. citizens in China some of the humiliation and indignities that Britons have undergone. In answering so effectively Japan's ultimatum last week, the U. S. Admiral also notified Japanese authorities at Shanghai and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Fleet in China, Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, that U. S. ships would go wherever U. S. lives or property were endangered...
...Fleet was suddenly sent from the Atlantic to the Pacific for fear that Japan would...
...Admiralty head ordered fleet of anti-aircraft guns ready for action...