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...cruise to Australia, Major General John L. Hines, Chief of Staff of the Army, was back at Washington. He had been in Hawaii acting (with Admiral Coontz) as one of the two chief umpires of the war game in which the fleet attempted to take the Islands from the garrison (TIME...
Umpire Hines rendered the first authentic account to reach the public of the outcome of the games. The plan was that the fleet, with an expeditionary force, known as the Blues, should attack the Islands. The garrison, with the ships and airplanes regularly stationed at the Islands, should constitute the defending force, known as the Blacks...
...lesson learned, as General Hines inferred it, was that the garrison of the Islands was too small. With 7,000 more men, the defense would have been able to maintain mobile reserves close enough to the north coast to repulse the attack there. "Dependence," said he, "must not be placed primarily or even predominantly upon mechanical means?field guns or machine guns?but upon mobile troops and aircraft, counter-attacking whenever and wherever necessary...
...citizen is both advocate and judge. Not only does he present his views, but he contributes also to the public judgment; and therefore he should strive for the nearest approximation he can make to truth. Moreover, by so doing he becomes a larger force. It was Lincoln rather than Garrison or Phillips that convinced his people of the necessity for emancipation...
...ushers for the Jubilee, as announced by the committee last night, are as follows: W. C. Atwater, Dudley Bell, Nicholas Biddle, L. D. Brayton, J. H. Browne, F. M. DuBois, Gardner Emmons, A. O. Fordyce, D. L. Garrison, R. I. Hunneman, E. B. Jackson, W. A. Magie, William Mulford, W. C. Peet Jr., J. L. Pool, B. C. Tripp, D. P. Tucker, F. H. Van Peski...