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...Four commodores, aged 82 to 88, survive on the Navy's retired list. Among them: Albert L. Key of Chattanooga, onetime naval aide to Theodore Roosevelt; George R. Salisbury of Canandaigua, N.Y., onetime Governor of Guam...
...fighting. But throughout the film, as training advances, one feels the folklore of the Corps, told in flashbacks to the palmy prewar days in Shanghai, when Sawdust Alley glittered with bar-girls and intrigue, and in the most realistic recital yet of the lonely, tragic struggles on Wake and Guam, where Marines made good to the last shot. The film states what Marines feel as well as what they do. It is all the color and excitement of a four-year hitch in the Marine Corps on the screen...
...Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking away the last Army air forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking to Corregidor and Bataan, and Admiral Hart's Asiatic "Fleet" of cruisers and destroyers was on its way to glory and futility in the Indies. Guam had fallen; Wake had a few days of glory left. The Japs were in Malaya, headed for Singapore. The Prince of Wales and the Repulse-pillars of British and U.S. sea power in the western Pacific-were gone. People at home were saying that the whole U.S. fleet was at the bottom...
...Supply Officer, rationing gasoline, ordering seeds and fertilizer from the mainland, setting pineapple growers to planting vegetables. Only when he was ordered back to the U.S. did Lou Claterbos learn that the War Department had taken the Pan American Airways schedule for granted and reported him a prisoner in Guam...
...cent for the long over-due domestic policies of the New Deal. He has had the vision to see the necessity for them. And while Senator Lodge has voted against most of the President's foreign policy, Mr. Casey has supported it. He voted for the fortification of Guam, aircraft appropriations, neutrality revision, lend-lease, draft extension and renewal of the trade pacts. Though he naturally has made many mistakes he has resolutely proven to be a fighter for progressive democracy at home and abroad. He deserves to be elected to the Senate...