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...Guatemala's old claim that British Honduras is hers. Most citizens do not like the idea. Said one Edgar Gilbert Napier Gegg, a storekeeper: "In the momentous year of 1798 the question was settled decisively by the Battle of St. George's Cay" (in which a British flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron, assured British control of the coast). To show where they stood, the settlement's Loyal and Patriotic Order of Baymen revived last week the anniversary of the battle (which Guatemalans say never even occurred), celebrated it with speeches, horse racing, parading...
...Ahead. Older chaplains, wiser in the ways of parish life, found readjustment less difficult but still far from easy. The rector of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers, N.Y., the Rev. Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted...
...spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards, who now sits at King's right hand, commanded a submarine flotilla...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
...into the water. Mothers holding babies made frantic one-armed, flesh-burning descents down the dangling cables. A man grabbed a rope and poised to shove off, let go when two women leaped on his back. The three plunged into the river together. Up to the Hamonic rushed a flotilla of motorboats, rowboats and canoes, led by U.S. Coast Guard craft. The boatmen snatched up those who could not swim ashore...