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Alfred Mahan died December 1, 1914, 18 months before the British and German fleets met at Jutland. Among his obituaries was a tribute that would have delighted Mahan: "The super-dreadnoughts are his children, the roar of the 16-inch guns are but the echoes of his voice...
...Krogh will lecture at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago as well as Swarthmore, attend biological meetings in Manhattan and elsewhere, taking with him his plain, patient wife, who is a doctor of medicine and has done valuable research on metabolism. Born to a brewer in Denmark's Jutland 65 years ago, August Krogh (pronounced Krug) was fascinated by beetle larvae at the age of four. At the University of Copenhagen he ripped with great speed and facility through courses in physics, chemistry and biology, specialized in zoology, studied the respiration of marine animals on a Greenland expedition, learned...
...early hours of the crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Last week, nearly 23 years after Jutland, there was little wrong with Britain's bloody ships because Lord Chatfield as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff had the job of bringing them to scratch. But there was plenty wrong with the rest of her three-year rearmament efforts. Four months have passed since the Czecho-Slovak war scare but few measures apparent to the public have been taken to improve Britain's shockingly weak defenses...
Also Englad can quit debating about Jutland, for it and perhaps Trafalgar and Blenheim were lost at Munich...