Examples of Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels in the following topics:
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- Neither the Army nor the Navy,
however, was ready for the war that was engulfing large parts of the globe,
especially America’s close European allies.
- Navy Secretary Josephus
Daniels, ignoring the nation's strategic needs and disdaining the advice of experts,
suspended meetings of the Joint Army and Navy Board for two years in response
to unwelcome advice.
- Among these were light anti-submarine ships, which were few in
number and reflected Daniels’ apparent unwillingness to maintain focus on the
German sub menace that had been a key point in U.S. foreign policy for the
previous two years.
- Daniels' tenure would have been
even less successful without the energetic efforts of Assistant Navy Secretary
Franklin D.
- Wilson,
less fearful of the Navy than other branches of the service, embraced a
long-term building program designed to make the U.S. battleship fleet the equal
of the Royal Navy by the mid-1920s.
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- Tasked
with creating a prolonged propaganda campaign, the group that became known as
The Creel Committee consisted of politician and journalist George Creel, the committee chairman; Robert
Lansing, Secretary of State; Newton D.
- Baker, Secretary of War; and Secretary
of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
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- When war broke out in Europe hundreds of men on two German
cruisers, the Prinz Eitel Friedrich
and the Kronprinz Wilhelm, were unwilling
to face the might of the British Navy in the Atlantic and instead lived for
several years on their ships in various Virginia ports and frequently enjoyed
shore leave.
- Eventually they were given a strip of land in the Norfolk Navy
Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, on which to erect accommodations.
- In October 1916, the ships and their personnel were moved to the
Philadelphia Navy Yard along
with the structures, which became known locally as the "German Village."
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to transfer the other 750 residents of
the village to secure units at Fort McPherson in Georgia and Fort Oglethorpe,
separated from the civilian internees there.