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...will come under the supervision of Lieutenant Commander Roger W. Cutler '11, wh odestroyed a German submarine by dropping a bomb from his patrol plane on it in July, 1918. At Jacksonville they will also be kept der Gene Tunney and Lieutenant Comphysically fit by Lieutenant Commanmander Edward W. Mahan '16, who was fullback on the Crimson varsity...
...World War I, Joseph Taussig never reached top rank (his biggest job: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet). But, for a Navy man who had his rare, hazardous quality of dissent, he did very well. The Navy for years discouraged and repressed the late, great Alfred Thayer Mahan while he was evolving the doctrines which still guide the navies of the world. Vice Admiral Taussig, in his idle years, may well remember that Mahan on active duty never rose above a captaincy, got to be a Rear Admiral only after he had retired...
Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., onetime Chief of Naval Intelligence and author of the authoritative Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahon, understands the Japanese people principally as sailors good and true. An old-line imperialist, he sees the Far Eastern issue in terms of the Open Door...
...each nation [the U. S. and Britain]," wrote Mahan 47 years ago, "be educated to realize the length and breadth of its own interest in the sea; when that is done, the identity of these interests will become apparent. This identity cannot be established firmly in men's minds antecedent to the great teacher, Experience; and experience cannot be had before that further development of the facts which will follow the not far distant day, when the United States people must again betake themselves to the sea and to external action...
Bright-faced German boys in tanks, at torpedo tubes, squinting over bombsights, had finally done Experience's job. The British had learned their lesson bloodily, at firsthand, in the broad sunlight of the day Mahan had foretold. The sun rises later in the U. S. But there too at last Mahan's day was dawning...