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...comment is just to remind TIME that the Army does not garrison Navy bases. The Marine Corps has been doing that job in a satisfactory manner for some past years...
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Old Ironsides" in 1830, to remind patriots that the U. S. Frigate Constitution had served well against the Barbary pirates, the French, the British (in her most famous battle in the War of 1812 she reduced the lighter Guerriere to smoking smithereens). The poem saved the Constitution from the junk pile. From grog tub to untattered sails, she was still shipshape last week, afloat at the Boston Navy Yard and useful mainly for show to visitors. Similarly listed "in service, out of commission" until last fortnight was Constitution's contemporary, Constellation, stationed at Newport...
...charmed Henry Agard Wallace, who lived to be Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture and 1940 choice for the Vice-Presidency. If the President remembered the first anniversary, he gave no sign of it. Henry Wallace, again with his friend and chief at Hyde Park, had to remind him of the second one. "That's right!" Mr. Roosevelt exclaimed, "and pretty happy eight years for both...
...trial by jury. The bill provided for special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would remind you that you are no longer in Bengal. ... No doubt the purpose of recent proceedings under your order is to improve morale. . . . The morale of the British people needs no improvement...
...Netherlands East Indies were apparently to be spared for the moment. But not forever. Just to remind the Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...