Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formosa, the Nationalists at last held a good defensive position. Chiang had an estimated 300,000 troops on the island, small air and naval forces to garrison and guard it, and the Communists lacked an air force and navy to help them hurdle the moat that surrounds the island. But Chiang could not count on the loyalty of Formosa's people, disgusted by Nationalist carpetbaggers who rushed to Formosa after the war's end. Probably the greatest threat facing the Nationalists on Formosa was Red fifth-column tactics within the island stronghold...
Another monument to the strange economics of the Government's price-support program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was on view last week. It consisted of 4,000 tons of cottonseed, piled high on the concrete tennis courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for by the U.S. taxpayer (through the Commodity Credit Corp.), the cottonseed seemed destined for the same fate as the mountains of potatoes, eggs and other commodities which the Government in the past has bought...
...Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle...
What did the word "others" mean? Other NROTC men? Other undergraduates? Wednesday night the Bureau of Naval Personnel wired the CRIMSON: "Word 'others' refers to all other persons, regardless of naval or academic affiliations, within the recollection of the individual, who are personally known by him and who are also personally known by him and who are also personally known by him to be or have been similarly associated or acting...
...loyalty quiz was objectionable even before it was "clarified" by the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The questionnaire is based on a list drawn up by one man, the Attorney General; it asks questions based on the principle of guilt by association; and it is then sifted by loyalty boards, which in recently publicized instances have shown irresponsibility...