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Behind the grim, bomb-scarred, brownstone walls of St. James's Palace the Prime Minister met with representatives of Britain's Allies.* Enlarging on a joint resolution to prosecute the war without letup, Winston Churchill made one of the most eloquent addresses of his career. Said...
...well, pipeline and refinery would be blown sky-high before the Japanese could get at them. They were also aware that the Japanese might never have even a chance to attack the Indies, that the way might be barred by the U.S. Navy and Air Force-which could bomb Japan's cities. Many statesmanlike Japanese, indeed, even favored pulling out of China altogether and peacefully repairing Japan's failing trade with the U.S. and the whole South Pacific area. There were plenty of Japanese last week, in Government as well as elsewhere, who believed that Japan should either...
...strong point south of Damascus, was no bargain either. Before it, the British lost eight armored vehicles, and were considerably pushed about in counterattacks. General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme, who is Free French General Georges Catroux's director of field operations, suffered a broken arm from a bomb dropped by a tricolor-bearing plane. There was, however, some comedy...
...told them not to mince words about the M.O.I. He heard plenty: of long-rankling complaints of cables and pictures needlessly held up anywhere from 24 hours to indefinitely; of months of diplomatic finagling necessary to interview key men; of flat refusals to requests to cover R.A.F. bombings, bomb disposal squads and the like...
...Luck has contributed a spectacular share to the naval encounters of World War II. When the British knocked out the fire-control tower of the Admiral Graf Spee and when the Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share...