Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pineau pointed to SEATO's recent naval and military maneuvers off Thailand. "Do you really think that, in this atomic era, this handful of ships will give the impression that the West is the leader of the world? The Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India was much more important. If the West does not make an effort in the direction of propositions of peace, we shall be beaten first on the field of propaganda and then on that of policy...
India's bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...
Married. Pacharabul Pibulsonggram, 22, daughter of Thailand's Prime Minister P. Pibulsonggram; and U.S. Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ralph Perrotta, 22; at Quonset Point Naval Air Station...
...World War II, Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison writes: "The Atlantic, which since the dawn of history has been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...
...certain portion of Atlantic is necessarily given over to a workmanlike description of: 1) Allied naval organization, 2) German Admiral Doenitz' changes of strategy and tactics, and 3) Allied changes of pace and weapons to meet them. Right up until the end of the war, there were new types of subs abuilding, and Doenitz still hoped to send the bulk of the U.S. war effort to the ocean floor. But for the most part, Historian Morison recites the details of battle after battle, sinking after sinking, with a sailor's relish that keeps the pages turning...