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...School for Overseas Administration, of which the new course is a part, will head the school. The course will last six months, with headquarters located in the Germanic Museum. Assisting Professor Friedrich as Deputy and Associate Directors of CATS are Morle Fainsod, associate professor of Government (Captain, Spec. Res.), and Colonel John Perkins, respectively...
...Mediterranean itself the British Mediterranean Fleet, headed by its new commander Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, dashing, eupeptic hero of the Graf Spec fight, maintained its equivocal control-unable to venture too far for fear of Axis air attack but still superior to any opposition the Italian Navy offered. Some day, any day, the first fissure of the volcano might burst and the molten lava begin to flow...
...first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before the pursuing British, but as a force that could stand and fight, or leap to a kill. Now, once again, Germany had a fleet in being. That fleet was small, but it was well built, new and powerful. It was gathered in the north, where it could strike as a unit...
...Blenheim wirelessed its base. R.A.F. torpedo bombers roared out to sea. The pilots were taut-eyed, for this was a prize not to miss. The scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...
...Bailey Circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The Circus had changed to look as fabulously beautiful as they had imagined it had looked when they were children. The Brothers John and Henry Ringling North, their imaginations inspired by Designer Norman Bel Geddes, had enchanted the traditional "Spec," the great opening parade...