Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news was flashed to every newspaper in London. No editor could fail to grasp its meaning: the Navy was acutely fearful of being bombed. Leader articles were quickly written. Appearing soon in London were such headlines as "All Anti-Aircraft Guns in Fleet Manned." Then over tickers in every Fleet Street news office came a notice...
Scattered British warships hastily steamed out of Mediterranean ports for unnamed stations and the British fleet at Malta was warned to be ready for instant duty. Leaves were cut short. Admittedly a French-British "naval demonstration" in the Mediterranean was under way and blunt notice was expected to be served on Italy that any attempt to attack Greece and especially to take Corfu, the Greek island at the Adriatic's mouth, would mean war. In 1923 Dictator Mussolini himself seized Corfu, left only after extensive diplomatic maneuvering by Britain and France...
...Shortly before I left the Admiralty it became necessary to give orders to man anti-aircraft guns of the fleet so as to be ready for anything that might happen. Long before guests came aboard this ship 16 anti-aircraft guns could have given a warm welcome to anyone who happened to come this...
...tracks. It was an impressive and world-shaking spectacle. Hard as it is for Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
...traffic was detoured. pending an examination, officials hesitated to jump to the conclusion that "the fight" was going on so soon after the trial. But next day there was no doubt left. In Fleet Street, centre of London's newspaper offices, the presses were grinding out morning editions. Suddenly came a bomb's heavy thud. Part of the News-Chronicle office crumbled. No one was hurt but. when the presses were stopped, it was discovered that one story they had been running off was a gloating little piece about Michael Joseph Mason's 17-year sentence, Peter...