Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria will have the opportunity of buying or building a merchant fleet, which with Trieste as its home port will put the red & white ensign on the seas again...
...ended Japan's first massed naval maneuvers in three years. The Emperors of Japan have reviewed their navies only 16 times. In 1890, first review to attract Western attention, the Emperor of Japan had 32,328 tons of warships, all built abroad. Last week the Emperor's fleet was 26 times as great, and nearly every ton of it built in Japanese yards. Since the last maneuvers three years ago, the sea fleet has increased 20%, naval aircraft...
Problem of Japan's 1933 maneuvers was how to defend the Empire from an enemy fleet supposed to have seized the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan received as mandates from the League of Nations and has declined to give up since she resigned from the League (TIME, April 3). Solving this problem took nearly a month, cost the hard-pressed Japanese Treasury some $2,700,000 and employed almost every ship, almost every station in the Japanese navy. For several days the Emperor himself commanded the defense forces. What the results of the maneuvers were Japanese referees would...
...Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly...
Next day he read in the newspapers that the planes had taken off from aircraft carriers stationed "somewhere to the southeast," gathered without difficulty that the attack was "as if" from a U. S. battle fleet in the Pacific. Japanese aviation men pointed out that the war games were equally a test of Tokyo's defense against an air attack from Vladivostok. War Minister Sadao Araki said that their purpose was the "spiritual education of the people...