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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the secretive confines of the Navy Department in Washington, a small war went on last year. Shy but stubborn Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, who inherited the experimental instinct from his great father, Thomas Alva Edison, wanted the Navy to try out small, speedy, motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers. Motored "mosquito boats"* and subchasers did perilous and effective duty along European coasts during War I, afterward were further developed by the British and Italians. Grey, stubborn Admiral William Daniel Leahy, who until last June was Chief of Naval Operations, stuck by his principle that the Navy...
...Great Britain's famed, red-haired racer and designer, Hubert Scott-Paine, last September demonstrated a 70-foot, triple-engined mosquito which could lug two torpedo tubes, two guns, a crew of 16, at 47 knots (54.1 miles) per hour-well above the best speeds expected from the U. S. boats still abuilding. For eleven mosquitoes and twelve subchasers based on "Ginger Dick" Scott-Paine's designs, the Navy last week let a $5,000,000 contract to the Electric Boat Co., which makes most of the Navy's submarines. When these and the twelve...
...years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been the President and ex-President, as soundly defeated as any in the history of the U. S., his personality and his political philosophy buried under a mass of invective that had held him personally responsible for the Great Depression. Last week the cycle closed: on the stage of history was a conflict and a need that none better than he understood...
Said Hoover of quick remedies: "I have no word of criticism but rather great sympathy for those who honestly search human experience and human thought for some easy way out, where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...
...cheer the Finnish Minister, yelled "Abbasso il Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...