Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surely," said the Rear Admiral in discussing the legal and ethical side of prohibition enforcement, "the subject of supporting the Constitution of the United States, of enforcing laws placed upon the statute books by the representatives of the people in Congress, and the duty of every citizen to obey the law as solemnly enacted, are outside the realms of controversy and argument...
...Commandant of the Coast Guard made it particularly clear to the reporter that the enforcement of the prohibition was only a small part of the work done by his men. "The Coast Guard was started," said Rear Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character...
...Rear Admiral Billard has denied that the Coast Guard was charged with enforcing the prohibition laws. "Only a small part of prohibition enforcement falls upon our men," the Commandant said. "The Coast Guard is charged with the duty of preventing the smuggling of intoxicating liquor into the United States from the sea, but of course this is not enough to stop drinking in the United States...
Asked whether he thought that the Coast Guard would ever succeed in downing the rum ships, Rear Admiral Billard said: "Napoleon is reported to have said that 'in any military operation, the importance of personnel to material is three to one.' This I believe to be true, not only of operations in war, but also of the present determined fight that is being waged by the government to uphold the law. Any body of men actuated by high traditions and by the ingrained habit of doing their duty under all circumstances, and sustained by high morale, are bound...
...know," continued the Rear Admiral, "that of the 22 boats captured by the United States during the differences will France in 1798 and 1799, the Coast Guard cutters captured 18, unaided, and assisted in the capture of two others; that a Coast Guard vessel made the first capture during the War of 1812; that piracy, which prevailed during the first part of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico, owed its suppression chiefly to the Coast Guard; that the cutters participated actively in the Seminole Indian War, the Mexican War, the Paraguayan Expedition in 1858, and, in the Civil...