Word: puleston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ARMED FORCES OF THE PACIFIC-W. D. Puleston-Yale...
Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., onetime Chief of Naval Intelligence and author of the authoritative Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahon, understands the Japanese people principally as sailors good and true. An old-line imperialist, he sees the Far Eastern issue in terms of the Open Door...
Chances for a U.S. victory, implies Puleston, are very bright providing 1 ) we maintain our naval superiority, 2) our fleet is kept concentrated (either in the Atlantic or Pacific) until the two-ocean navy is completed, 3) Singapore, Guam and Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...
...Captain Puleston sees an alternative to war. Germany has little more to offer Japan than moral support in the Pacific. Perhaps Japan will come to realize she has picked the wrong horse- that her economic destiny lies closer to the Washington-London Axis...
Died. Dr. Fred Puleston, 78, who in his adventurous life was a prisoner of Jesse James, knew the Irish Patriot Sir Roger Casement, Explorer Henry M. Stanley and Missionary David Livingstone, saw his own brother eaten by a crocodile in the Congo and wrote a book about it all (African Drums, 1930); in Daytona Beach, Fla. His last request: that his death be noted in TIME...