Word: naval
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Spain. Three years ago, U.S. military men led by the late Admiral Forrest Sherman convinced the Truman Administration that the U.S. must have air and naval bases in Spain in order to defend Europe. But in the ensuing horse-trading, the State Department failed to put enough pressure on Franco. Last January, under new management, the State Department began to move briskly. Last week the U.S. finally got its Spanish bases...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...
...economic and military assistance pacts. The U.S. will give Spain $226,000,000, already appropriated by Congress, in military and economic aid. In return, the Spaniards give U.S. armed forces the right to use and develop certain Spanish bases. Their probable locations: air bases near Madrid, Barcelona and Seville; naval facilities at the Atlantic port of Cadiz, the Mediterranean port of Cartagena...
...hard to find enough good officers. The rate of resignations from the U.S. Military Academy was 12% in 1952-double the 1950 figure. Out of 810 naval R.O.T.C. college graduates, educated at Navy expense and eligible this year for regular commissions, only 10% applied. Said former Joint Chiefs Chairman Omar Bradley, at a congressional hearing last July: "If you removed today the prohibition against resigning from the [Regular] service, I think you would find a whole flock of resignations coming...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas -Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...