Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything seems to be in fine shape," said Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Felix Stump. "When the bell rings, we will be ready to go." This week the bell rang for the Chinese Nationalists to evacuate the Tachen Islands with the help of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
General Omar Bradley called Korea "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." But this was not the opinion of the commanders who knew most about that war. Korea, said General James Van Fleet, "was the right war, at the right place, and the right time, against the right enemy and with the right allies." The Communists had a long, vulnerable supply line, he said, but the U.S. "had command of the water and the air...[and] unexcelled bases in Japan and Korea for redeployment...We had the tremendous skill...
While Korea trained the Chinese Communist army, it did nothing for the Nationalist Chinese army, which was not allowed to send units to Korea-"a terrible mistake," said Van Fleet. Using Chiang Kai-shek's divisions, said Infantryman Van Fleet, would have told "which of his generals are good in combat and what the Nationalist troops can really do. Even today we do not know that answer...
N.Z.Z. has been cold and deep ever since it started in 1780. In 1805 the paper reported briefly the defeat of the French fleet at Trafalgar and cautiously added: "In the first moments of such events, one is inclined to exaggerate conditions. It might therefore be better to wait for reports which are written in cold blood and come from safer sources." Such careful news coverage and restraint have earned the paper so much respect that when it does speak out forcefully, N.Z.Z. often gets what it wants, e.g., its insistent campaigning has given the Swiss press as much freedom...