Official bible of naval officers is their U. S. Naval Policy. The Navy's sacred General Board periodically compiles and revises this document, requires officers to follow it religiously in their public utterances. Issued last week was Naval Policy, 1940. Officers and informed civilians eagerly scanned it, looking for any changes in Navy thinking since the last revision in 1937.
Only important new statement of policy was "to organize and maintain the Navy for major operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans." In 1937 few dreamed that British sea power might be endangered by German air power, and the U....
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