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"immediately if your seniors were killed, you had to take over the ship. If the other seniors were killed you had to take over the fleet. You had to be trained this way. You might be young, but that’s the kind of training given you to be a comprehensivist. … Then came finally contact. And it was said that in the first and second world wars we would know who was going to run the world for the next 25 years. You knew what the other man’s tonnage was but you wouldn’t really know what he could do with the same, or more with less, until you came into contact: And the other one went to the bottom. So he didn’t know either. And these were kept secrets. This was what was meant by classified information. Anyway, I was privy to all this…
“And of all things, here I was in the Navy at an extraordinary moment of history where the masses of the waterocean world were running the world, the British Empire at that time; and they suddenly were about to lose if they couldn’t get America in because the submarines had not been anticipated and they were sinking their great line of supply. If they couldn’t keep up their line of supply the war would come from Europe on to the British Isles and whoever controlled the British Isles was”
