Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another inescapable fact is that if Britain ceases to be mistress of the seas, the new mistress is almost certain to be either 1) Germany and her allies or 2) the U. S. and its allies (if any). Recognition of this fact is implicit in the two-ocean navy program which the U. S. already has afoot...
Already committed to a two-ocean navy, the U. S. has a start in such a naval race. But her yards are running at capacity. And Germany already has the shipbuilding yards of France, plus her own. If the Battle of Britain should give Adolf Hitler not only the British yards but the partly completed ships of Britain's Fleet-to-be (seven battleships, seven carriers, 23 cruisers, 32 destroyers, ten submarines, plus smaller ships and any others secretly laid down since last September)-the U. S. would be in a tight spot...
...much of the British Fleet will surrender to Germany that the Axis will become the major naval power in the Atlantic even with the entire U. S. Fleet in that ocean...
...Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal of U. S. isolationism, but it is a policy on which the U. S. already is launched. It was launched last week when Congress definitely placed an order for a two-ocean navy...
...spare, Hero Bristowe and crew reached and repassed the barrage net, which luckily enmeshed their pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson...