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...Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home...
Enter R. N. As the British land forces, stung by bitter winds and flying sand, burrowed into the wadi for the night, the Royal Navy began its part. In towards the shore slipped the monitor Terror, with her the river gunboats Ladybird* and Aphis. At extreme range the Terror's big 15-inchers opened up, started chewing at the cliffs where Italian batteries were dug in. Steadily the little flotilla moved closer, bringing smaller guns into action. Within two hours the main line of the battle fleet had moved into position and started pumping shells in a whistling stream...
...bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative he ordered his artillery and air squadron to fire on the British gunboats Ladybird, Scarab and Bee, and on the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk. For this gross insubordination he was reprimanded but never punished...
Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...
...Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...