Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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1- r -1 v Hrs., .,... l X, W LOYO L A COLLEGE Page 2 REVIEW Recent surveys in the United States, the results of which may be taken as a fair indication of public reaction in the Whole English-speaking World, showed that a miserably small percentage of the populace were conversant with the Articles of the Atlantic Charter. American soldiers questioned in North Africa were found to be giving little thought to the building of a new World after the War. We cannot but lament this state of affairs, for We must avoid at all costs a recur- rence of the confusion which followed 1918, and which proved a fertile field for the seeds of the present World conflict. Our leaders must have the courage to state plainly, clearly, and in concrete terms what kind of international World order we in- tend to establish after our victory. Failure to do so is a confession of inadequacy in the righteousness of our cause. 1 1 Y Spring-1943 Now generals talk of campaigns lost and won, Of battles to be fought. They speak of men As if of flies. Two million here , and then Perehance they'll die in webs weaoed by the Hun. And all the while the happy, smiling sun Makes soldiers dream of home, and when As youths on golden days they ran o'er fen. But now they march until the job is done. Montgomery sweeps the western desert clean Of German tanks and men. In Russia stench And mud, like parting hands, stay armies' might, And Europe starving waits, restless and keen. Rest still, my soul, no longer tug and wrenchg Soon I will heed thy call to the great fight. PATRICK DEVAUX, '45. 1 1 1 Spring Uprising Do you hear the call of Spring? F locks of birds upon the wing? Flowers pushing from the ground In triumph and in glory hound? Snow that melts on mountains high, Bent to quench the streams so dry? Who is willing to help out Natures swelling, gaudy rout? TOM SULLIVAN, H.S. '45, 1 JJ-,-J'

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LOYOLA Page 3 COLLEGE REVIEW NAVAL POWERS OF THE WORLD BY mc:-:ARD Bl.ANcHFlEl.D, '44 HE deadly conflict in which we are now engaged is being waged on land, in the air, and at sea, everywhere in the world. The naval engagements which this struggle has produced have been embraced in two main theatres, the European, where Britainis ageless fleet guards the lifelines of democracy against the inroads of sea forces of Germany and Italy, and the Pacific, where the navies of Imperial japan and the United States of America are locked in mortal combat. It is the battle-covered flotillas of Great Britain which bear the brunt of naval war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean against the combined might of Germany and Italy. At the head of the British forces sail the mighty ships of the line, from the old 'cRoyal Sovereignn and HP1evenge', to the new 40,000-ton giants 'tLion', and c'Temeraire,'. Amongst her seventeen dreadnaughts Britain numbers tried and true ships such as the i'ValiantD, 'iWarspite,,, and Malayan, and modern floating fortresses such as the 33,900-ton sister ships Nelsonv and c'Rodney , the four remaining ships of the King George VU class, and the latest additions, 1'Lion', and TemeraireU. In ships of the line in the Atlantic the Axis is far inferior, the main threat, the uAdmiral von Tirpitzn, supposedly of 37,500 tons, but of much greater tonnage and possessing high speed and heavy armament, is confined to the fjords of Norway by the superior numbers and eternal vigilance of her foes. Supplementing her are two Jpocketn battleships and the badly - mauled battle cruisers uScharnhorstv and c'Gneisenau',. Despite the appearance of the new German 'cGraf Zeppelin and Deutschlandn, Britain has the field to herself in carriers, but she has found comparatively little use for them in the waters of Europe, close to land-based aircraft. Their greatest achieve- ment was the crippling of the Bismarck by planes from the much sunk uArlc Royalv and the G'Victoriousv, two of Britainis seven large carriers. Britannia truly rules the waves in the cruiser class. Her sixty cruisers range far and wide protecting the world-wide shipping of the Empire. Against this mighty cruiser fleet Hitler can pit but seven sea-rangers of his own, and beside the destroyer Hotillas of England the German destroyer force is insignificant. . The real threat is the German Unter see booty or U-boatn. This weapon of the Axis has sunk a terrifying tonnage of Allied merchant shipping and has threatened to cripple seriously the war effort of the Allied nations by striking at their vulnerable lines of supply. To counter this threat, an ever-increasing emphasis has been placed upon convoys and convoy escort craft. In this field, Canada has distinguished her- self. Besides building scores of corvettes and other small escort ships she has expanded her sheep-dog navyv from fifteen to over four hundred ships and has taken over fully one-third of the convoy escort tasks in the North Atlantic. This is truly an