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...shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Whose Mediterranean? | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Motto of the Ajax: Nee quisquam nisi Ajax, which in the U. S. Navy would be translated, "We can't do nothing till Ajax comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Ajax | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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