Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Hoare that Britain will not abandon Malta. In other words, the wholly inadequate Malta defenses will be maintained as they are, for moral effect. Virtual abandonment of Malta as a main Empire naval base took place months ago when the major units of the British Mediterranean Fleet scuttled off to Alexandria (TIME, Sept...
...much so that some British editors spoke of what was under discussion as "the Pirow-Evans Defense Plan." It was supposed to envision, in addition to what Mr. Pirow asked of Great Britain, the following contributions by South Africa: 1) raising of a great South African air battle fleet to back the war-boats of Great Britain in defending the Lifeline of Empire; 2) establishment on a basis for quick conversion into combative use of British commercial air liners constantly winging up and down both the East and West coasts of Africa; 3) erection of munitions plants and factories...
Meanwhile Fleet Street editors scoffed at the cock & bull yarn some reporters had telephoned in. They said they had talked to an Irishman who said he had talked to a woman who said her little boy had been rescued from drowning in the duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer...
...pride, surely not unpardonable, in our public and parliamentary traditions," cried the Labor Daily Herald. "For comparison," boomed the Conservative Daily Express, "you need to [recall] the Stavisky Scandal in France and the United States Teapot Dome oil scandals, which dragged on for years." In editorials of modest understatement, Fleet Street reminded everyone that only six weeks had elapsed since the Budget leaked- another record for British Justice, swift & sure...
...England, Skipper Osborne's wife was ill with worry, could think of no reason for the wild trip unless he was heading for New Zealand, where his brother has a fishing fleet. A friend said he had been asked to go, that Girl Pat was bound for the West Indies where Osborne intended to sell her before seeking adventure in the U. S. Other rumors: Girl Pat was searching for buried pirate treasure; she had become a love nest, and feminine laughter rippled through the portholes. Last week as Girl Pat vanished over the horizon an amateur radio operator...