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Bright-faced German boys in tanks, at torpedo tubes, squinting over bombsights, had finally done Experience's job. The British had learned their lesson bloodily, at firsthand, in the broad sunlight of the day Mahan had foretold. The sun rises later in the U. S. But there too at last Mahan's day was dawning...
...British a number of U. S. Navy light cruisers of the Omaha class (7,050 tons, ten 6-in. guns, four 3-in. anti-aircraft guns); a number of destroyers (not the Navy's newest, which Navy Secretary Knox calls "young cruisers"); and unlimited numbers of motor torpedo (mosquito) boats both large & small. For these the British would trade at least two spanking-new battleships of the enormous King George V class (35,000 tons, mounting ten 14-in. guns). With the two new U. S. battleships, North Carolina (due in April) and Washington (due in May), null mounting...
...tactic which was the fruit of winter experiments: hunting in packs. Survivors arriving at a Canadian port told of having been attacked by "at least three or four" German submarines; others arriving in Manhattan referred to "a nest of at least seven subs." In one recent case, nine simultaneous torpedo explosions gave a convoy its first warning of the presence of submarines...
...ships are chartered by the British Government, and the income enables the Norwegian Government to meet its debts, to train an army of Norwegian soldiers in Scotland, to train several hundred Norwegian air pilots in Canada, and to purchase bombing and fighting planes in the U. S., and motor torpedo boats for the small Norwegian navy operating effectively from England...
Last week the stage was set for mediation, Nipponese style. The Japanese cruiser Natori steamed into Saigon harbor. Off the southeast Indo-Chinese coast appeared two Japanese aircraft carriers, two cruisers and two torpedo boats. Planes from the carriers cruised low over the city. At an appointed hour six French and six Thai delegates were taken aboard the Natori, where seven white-uniformed Japanese officers headed by Chief of the Japanese Military Mission in Indo-China Major General Raishiro Sumita received them with bows and toothy smiles...