Word: trafalgar
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...half the terrains and atmospheres of Europe, as an illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship, the Victory, returned from the Battle of Trafalgar, he went down to Sheerness to go aboard and make sketches...
...Trafalgar-the Navy's hemispheric defense game off the West Indies (TIME, March 6). In such theoretical exercises, said he, theoretical land masses are imagined on the strategy maps where actually there is only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude...
...secret around Washington, however, that Joe Kennedy was in for an admonition for publicly expressing views like those that Messrs. Wilson and Phillips held in private. For Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were irritated by Joe Kennedy's speech at the annual Trafalgar Day dinner of Britain's Navy League, praising Neville Chamberlain for the Munich deal. To Secretarv Hull's mind that excursion into British politics was as bad as if the British Ambassador to the U. S. had intervened in a scrap between Republicans and Democrats...
During the panic period Mr. Kennedy was not perhaps quite as close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued to keep mum about Munich...
Jocularly, Mr. Kennedy began by relating that when Mrs. Kennedy first heard what was in his mind as he prepared his Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...