Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief of Air Staff: Sir Cyril L. N. Newall...
Chief of General Staff: General H. Petkoff...
Chief of General Staff: General S. lonescu...
Chief of Imperial Defense Staff: General Sir Edmund Ironside...
...Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving U. S. ships like protection. >First prize of the British naval forces was the German freighter Olinda, bound for Hamburg with $700,000 worth of Argentine wheat and meat. The cruiser Ajax overhauled...