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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stilling of radios to eliminate inter ference from Navy code messages to the attendant fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...FLEET PROBLEM XX, FEB. 2O ISSUE, SHOWING "DON JUAN, PUERTO RICO" SWELL BUT WE SPELL IT SAN JUAN. CORDIALLY INVITE ALL AMERICAN GIRLS COME DOWN SEE US SOMETIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dying v. Paying | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...French military cooperation, complained that the British attitude of "one ally should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dying v. Paying | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

France. The French acted as if they believed all they heard about Italian and German mobilization and more too. In Tunisia some troops were held in barracks, while others moved up to the fortified line near the Libyan border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ides of March | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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