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...building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last June Admiral Pratt was retired and Admiral William Harrison Standley succeeded him as Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, May 8). With a President in the White House friendly to the Navy Admiral Standley was a happy man last week because, at least on paper, the U. S. fleet was again headed back to its old position of "second to none...
...Navy Department last week announced a wholesale shakeup of 24 commands, due to age limits having been reached and tours of duty ended, to take effect throughout the year. Most important was the appointment of Vice Admiral William Harrison Standley, 60, to be Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's No. 1 tactical post. At a date not yet named he will succeed Admiral William Veazie Pratt, who reached retirement age March 1. President Roosevelt wants Admiral Pratt to stand by until final disposition of the Geneva Disarmament Conference...
Meantime, Admiral Standley will be transferred from the command of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force, normally based on the Atlantic Coast but for the past year lingering in the Pacific, to command the Battle Force. Like famed Captain Reece, R. N. of the Bab Ballads, Admiral Standley says he pays more attention to personnel than to technical affairs. ''I am interested in everything that concerns my officers...
Born at Ukiah, Calif, in the northern redwood country, William Standley was the son of a sheriff-rancher. In 1890 he read an advertisement for competitive examinations to Annapolis. He frankly admits that he took the tests "just for an excuse to go to Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy...
...facts: the appointment is for a four-year tour of duty; Admiral Leigh is due to be retired for age Sept. 1, 1934. Likely candidates for Chief of Naval Operations: Admiral McNamee who this week defends the U. S. from the Black "enemy"; Vice Admiral William H. Standley, commander of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force; Vice Admiral David Foote Sellers, commander of the battleship division of the Battle Force...