Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mildly Firmer." Mr. Truman had nothing to say. But what Mr. Truman's Administration did supplied some clues to what he thought. In Washington, U.S. military and naval chiefs continued to meet with Britons and Canadians on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, in as close a military alliance on a very high level as even Winston Churchill could desire. Said one U.S. admiral: "I hope to God the British staff does stay...
...Pauley, with the blessing of his good friend, doggedly fought on. The five-week-old hearing of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee had turned into meaningless maneuvering and fiery accusations, but it was still Washington's best show. Last week pink-jowled Harold Ickes, whose earlier performances there had cost him his job as Secretary of the Interior, played a return engagement...
...still a feudal monarchy, its last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
...sure there are lots of sympathizers to my way of thinking. I am told that the Army & Navy Journal [whose contents he studies] tends to agree with me." Said Grossadmiral Doenitz' lawyer: "My client would have a good chance to be acquitted if the judges were Allied naval officers." The other accused were feverishly working on defense arguments ranging from blaming it all on Hitler to proving that once they were kind...