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...World that the Japanese plan would create is one in which the Axis would have equal rights in Anglo-U.S.-dominated regions, Britain and the U.S. no rights in Axis-dominated regions. The English-speaking nations would surrender their one potent weapon: naval superiority. In such a world the British Empire would no longer exist. In such a world the U.S. would be isolated in North America. In such a world, the U.S. would enjoy a whole bellyful of isolationism; as a great nation it would be isolated out of existence...
...Monarch Feisal II's pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports, aerodromes and means of communication...
April 6. At dawn the Germans attacked northern Greece in five spearheads. Three divisions of Greeks defended that area, and it was intended that they should delay the Germans as much as possible, then retire in order behind Salonika to the main Anglo-Greek force. This plan was disrupted by Yugoslav weakness, which was due to troop dispositions which had been made for political rather than military reasons by the pre-coup, pro-German Government of Dragisha Cvetkovitch...
...Burma could China reach the sea. Step by step the Japanese had moved southward to cut outside maritime communications with China. Last week, although the U.S. State Department still minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact, more & more officials were realizing the effectiveness of Axis grand strategy: to destroy the Anglo-American position in the world by isolating the U.S. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann, espousing this view: The issue of 1941 is "whether the United States, cut off from Asia, from Europe, from Africa, from South America, and from the British Isles, is to be left alone, entirely isolated, incompletely armed...
...takes his Soviet military figures from War Commissar Klimenti Voroshilov and other Soviet sources, Russia's military strength is almost twice as great as Germany's. The future of the world depends upon Russia and the U.S. Russia, he says authoritatively, would like to join the Anglo-Saxon powers in trimming Hitler's wings. There is only one catch-to reassure Russia after the perfidy she has suffered at the hands of other Governments, it would be necessary for the U.S. to plunge in first...