Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government issued a statement which still offered arbitration on the question of the four Chinese but which hinted darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York Herald Tribune editorialized that the Japanese blockade was an "act of war." The New York Daily News argued for a U. S.-British blockade of Japan...
...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...
...conference with the Senate Military Affairs committee he: 1. Called Hitler the "Mad Man of Europe." 2. Admitted negotiating a naval alliance with Britain. 3. Termed the the U. S. air force "poorly manned and equipped" 4.Placed the U. S. defense frontier in France. 5. Asked for an air fleet of 12,000 planes...
...come to London just to see his tailor. Their theme: military tactics of Britain, France and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bang-up climax was a demonstration of Anglo-French naval power as units of the French Atlantic squadron for the first time since 1918 joined the British Home Fleet at Rosyth...
Oath. Meanwhile, in Burgos, Generalissimo Franco moved to set up a "corporate state" on the model of Fascist Italy. A $70,000,000 subsidy was set aside to build up a merchant fleet to "display New Spain's prestige in America and the Far East." Curtailment of imports of gasoline, motor cars, machinery, motion picture films was announced. Syndical labor laws were ordered written, with labor unions being organized on the approved Fascist model. Strikes will be outlawed, the unions will be controlled by the Government. New contracts will be written for tenant farming, and the Spanish Phalanx...