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...SPRATLY ISLANDS Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all lay claim to some or all of these reefs and islets. In 1988, the dispute sparked a naval battle between China and Vietnam, in which more than 70 sailors died. In subtler declarations of ownership, Vietnam last week launched a holiday cruise to the barren archipelago, and Taiwan in late March marked its territory by erecting a bird-watching shack on one of the islands. At least there's a sensible money-grubbing reason for some of this squabbling: the Spratlys sit athwart vital shipping lanes, fishing grounds...
...plan is a new development of naval instruction in American universities patterned after the system of military instruction already in force. The Navy department has announced that its intention to institute these courses has grown out of the successful experience of the World War. There, after an intensive six months' course, college men proved their ability to make good acting ensigns...
...Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps camps or cruises will be held during the summer annually, and students enrolled in any of the courses in Naval Science and Tactics may apply for admission to them. Uniforms and necessary equipment in the course will be supplied by the Navy Department without expense to the students...
...primary object of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps is to provide systematic instruction and training which will quality selected students for appointment as officers in the Naval Reserve. The plan will provide a course to instruction so designed that a college man may prepare himself for service to his country in time of national emergency as a commissioned officer of the Navy...
Leagues of Nations have been suggested before. Conferences of diplomats come not without precedent. Schemes and plans for restraining man's aggressive instincts have been broached. But it is not in any such fundamentally illegitimate liaison as that of naval science and academic culture that the solution is to be found. Plato and Ludovico II Moro may only make our marines the better fighters. It is only in the stimulation of some sort of national consciousness of the horrors of organized warfare that peace may be assured...