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...Dragolyub Yovanovic, recently expelled from Tito's puppet Peasant Party. Yovanovic said the bill was "perfect"-but that since it affected everybody in Yugoslavia it should first be submitted to a plebiscite. Then he too voted for immediate adoption of a measure which brought full socialization to the westernmost point it has yet reached...
General Douglas MacArthur's troops were getting on with the trying job of reclaiming the Philippines. This week 55-year-old Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
...southern doorstep of Japan's homeland, and down through the westernmost reaches of the Pacific, Admiral William F. Halsey's U.S. Third Fleet bombed and maneuvered with unprecedented power and dash. The Japanese had no difficulty reading the signs...
There was another need before the final drive on Japan was begun: the ground forces had to have room to stretch themselves. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Southwest Pacific, was in the best position for such a move, and inching closer to the takeoff point. From westernmost New Guinea to Halmahera was an easy distance (200 miles) by the new U.S. Pacific standards; from Halmahera it is another short hop (400 miles) to Mindanao in the Philippines...
...indeed the Old Man: Supreme Commander Eisenhower. In a five-day tour he traveled the battle area from the British-Canadian wing in the east to the westernmost American positions, visited air, ground and airborne forces, conferred with his top commanders, including General Sir Bernard Montgomery and Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley...