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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captured or destroyed by an enemy fleet and that a Japanese-American naval war under present conditions is virtually impossible. ... In demonstrating that the canal could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would be so terrible as to make it actually impracticable because the attacking nation would be left crippled. It was demonstrated again, also, that the battleship remains the Gibraltar of naval warfare." What Exercise M demonstrated, neither the United Pressman nor any other civilian will ever precisely know. To prove the Panama Canal vulnerable or invulnerable or the battleship a Gibraltar or not, was certainly...
...make or break the Navy. Its Chief of Operations, who corresponds to the Army's Chief of Staff, can, if he is capable, key the whole service up to a zestful pitch of efficiency. But it often remains for the Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, as the nation's first seaman, to leave the most memorable stamp on the Navy. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's regime as Commander-in-Chief (1932-33) is remembered for the mass operations around Hawaii at a critical time in the Far East (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933).* Admiral Sellers' term...
...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...
...recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor. "I do not believe the step taken by El Salvador will injure anybody in the world. ... In recognizing Manchukuo El Salvador acted as a free, sovereign and independent nation, which does not need any lessons in conduct except from its own laws and international obligations." The moral satisfaction of membership in the League of Nations costs impoverished El Salvador $6,000 a year. Snorted Diario Latino: "Our country has never had any benefit from the League. When...
Died. Arthur Warner, 59, associate editor and columnist ("The Drifter'') of The Nation; after a brief illness; in Manhattan...