Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that. "The air and naval forces that were at my disposal out there were only operating at a fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
CHAIRMAN RUSSELL: "The very vital question about this whole tragic controversy is the employment of the Nationalist troops, the position of a naval blockade and the bombing of the bases and lines of supply and communications of the Communist Chinese. Now, every member of the committee wishes to develop just how the controversy arose...
Andrew E. Norman '51, co-chairman of the American Patriots, issued the following statement last night: "We (the American Patriots) are deeply disturbed that the men who govern our naval affairs today have so little devotion to the traditions and history of this great country that they balk and whimper that the job might be tedious. American Patriots feel as ever that no expense and no effort must be spared The Monitor must be raised. There are higher authorities than Secretary Matthews...
...time had dourly warned that the pact would be interpreted by the Russians as "an aggressive move"). Taft wanted to send "such airplanes and warships as might be necessary" to support a Nationalist invasion of the Chinese mainland, bomb Chinese bases, but confessed to some reservations about a naval blockade...
Weyman's real name:Stephen Weinberg. His lifetime profession: impostor. Brooklyn-born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once his Brooklyn accent betrayed him at a banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan...