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...Washington talked under its breath last week of the possibility that the U. S. might soon find itself at war with Japan, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred in Washington. Before them was not the question of what foreign policy the U. S. should pursue, not the question of whether the U. S. should or should not fight Japan. Their duty was simply to consider the practical problem of what the U. S. Navy should do if called upon...
Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy...
...result of these and other speed-up measures, Secretary Knox and his Chief of Naval Operations, Harold Raynsford Stark, announced that the U. S. Navy might have its new ships-including the new second-ocean navy-by 1944, two to three years ahead of original schedule. Good as this news was, Navy men hoped they would not have to fight their next war before then...
...from the U. S. Senate, unanimously voting $3,297,000,000 for the Army & Navy. Nor from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, saying that the Army with all its new money cannot be ready for a war before December 1941. Nor from Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, confessing at last that the U. S. Navy, even when operating near its home shores, is helpless without enough aircraft to support and protect surface ships. (Admiral Stark told a House committee: ". . . Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without...
...clear up any implication that the Navy had not been frank with Congress, the Senate Naval Affairs Committee last week had up Secretary Charles Edison. Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Operations, had lately declared his unremitting faith in the battleship over aircraft, urged Congress to steam ahead with battleship construction. But Secretary Edison had announced last fortnight that aircraft had a "temporary advantage over ships," had said the Navy would have to revise its ship designs. Last week Mr. Edison did a neat straddle. Said he: ". . . Battleships were, are and will be for many years the backbone...