Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally clear that the United States cannot afford, for military and strategic considerations, to allow the island of Formosa to fall into unfriendly hands. For this reason, the seventh fleet which now guards the Straits of Formosa cannot be withdrawn, since it is the West's only guarantee of the island's security. The most reasonable solution to this apparent dilemma would be one which the British have suggested--a U.N. administered plebiscite on Formosa, by which the seven million natives would be allowed to determine their own ruler for the first time since Japanese occupation. Although a plebiscite might...
Both Fairbank and Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History, agreed that military force would accomplish little. The Chinese are undoubtedly demanding more powerful weapons, like submarines, from the Russians, Fairbank explained. "Soon we won't be able to leave our fleet out there for someone to drop something on," he said...
...wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila, but he soon found that his political duties were almost as exacting as running a fleet. After three highly successful years of extending his country's benevolent paternalism to the Philippines, while deftly avoiding any appearance of internal meddling, Ambassador Spruance, 68, was ready to retire. Last week, the White House announced his successor: Michigan's ex-Senator Homer Ferguson...
...assures high-level production into 1958-and another big step toward being the first U.S. aircraft company with a commercial jet airliner. Airline operators guessed that the Air Force would let Boeing take orders for commercial transports, since the Air Force itself is interested in building such a civilian fleet...
...servicemen run a very real risk of entering a combat area some time in the future. In line with the danger involved, it is significant that Eisenhower accepted Congress' objections to his own order only after the Straits of Formosa had again become a cruising area for the Seventh Fleet. The crises and lulls in the world situation should not be a gauge for on-again, off-again educational rights. Surely, until the cold war has cooled enough to make two years of service no longer necessary for all able men, there is little reason to cut off a program...