Word: naval
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Guards Brigade, the Fourth Hussars, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers as well as naval and airforce units to Malaya. To hold their rebellious colonies, the French and Dutch are using men who could be used for the defense and recovery of Europe. The Kremlin did not create the anti-Western drive in Southeast Asia-but stepping up that drive now is a shrewd and important move in the Kremlin's World Plan...
...resonant a note. In the 1860s, the Bolivian dictator Mariano Melgarejo tied the British minister on to a burro, face tailward, rode him three times around La Paz's principal plaza because he had slighted the dictator's mistress. Queen Victoria, on being told that British naval guns could never reach landlocked Bolivia, seized a pen, crossed the country off the map, saying: "Bolivia no longer exists...
...want exercises with the Jordy Trainer and the Sangamo Attack Teacher, take Naval Science...
Rising Sun is the third volume in Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...
Militarists Made Desperate. Japan, says Captain Morison, might never have made war on the U.S. if U.S. diplomacy had been wiser. Two cardinal errors were the Immigration Act of 1924, excluding Japanese, and the insistence on naval limitation. The first discredited the liberal policy that had been making headway in Japan; the second "rendered the militarists desperate." Among the results were assassinations of liberal statesmen in Tokyo and deliberate attacks on Americans in China, including the sinking of the river gunboat Panay in 1937. That was also the year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls...