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Dear Time-Reader: in our SPORT section this week, we present an unusual four-page portfolio of bird paintings in full color. They were done (some especially for TIME, the others for Manhattan's Linlo House) by British-born Dennis Puleston, who has led a spectacularly adventurous life for a man devoted to such a gentle pursuit-so spectacular that I should like to tell you more about...
...Puleston, who was 47 last week, has always sketched birds in his spare time -whether commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to a bank in London or hunting buried treasure off Hispaniola, or being initiated into a Samoan clan, or traveling "hard" class across Russia, or training troops to land on Omaha Beach...
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...