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...friendship of two young officers, Sub-Lieutenant Westley of the British Navy, and Karl von Malheim, holding a similar post in the German navy, carries the story-thread from a night club in Kiel shortly before the war to the bridge of a British cruiser in the Battle of Jutland, and thence to the post-war office of a steel magnate. Inheriting their respective fathers' businesses, these two represent the curious and tense struggle between the cooperation of systematically-conducted navies and the individualistic philosophy of modern business. In the last act the two forces come to grips...
...play, which is being directed by E. P. Goodnow '17, calls for an all male cast of 33 parts. Commander King-Hall has drawn largely from his own experience in 'the play, as he has seen action in the Battle of Jutland, and since has been with the navy in all parts of the world...
During the World War, Commander Stephen King-Hall, R. N., served in the Royal Navy. His ship engaged in sharp combat at Jutland, and it is upon his personal experiences in that battle that the action of the second act is based. He also supervised the London production of the play, and the club officers are consulting him for realistic details of setting and action...
...often does in French barber shops, the talk turned upon books. Papa said that the War book he likes best is Le Mémorial de Foch by Raymond Recouly, next best, La Bataille du Jutland by Captain George von Hase. The barber, eager to show himself wellread, observed, "From their books it is certainly evident that Foch and Clemenceau did not like each other...
David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...