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...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
...hope that Slovaks in Slovakia will forget their taste of "independence" and cooperate in making a healthy, democratic postwar Czechoslovakia. Priest-President Tiso apparently thinks that they may be willing to try. Said he, in an obvious and ominous move to quell opposition to his brand of independence: "If there were no executions until now, it is not because a priest could not sign a death sentence...
With only a week more of opera to go, Manhattan's Metropolitan last week turned up its biggest surprise of the season. He was a brand-new and authentic example of a very rare operatic commodity: a Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). His name: Emery Darcy...
...Navy last week admitted that it had a brand-new type of ship which has been added to fill out its invasion repertory. The LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) is expected to fill the last gap in the range of vessels needed for amphibious jobs...
...more than a month, a "plan" to recognize the French Committee lay on the President's desk while he thumbed and mulled it over. Then, pointedly snubbing De Gaulle once again, the President "revised" the plan by submitting a brand new one to London and the State Department. The rumored Roosevelt suggestion: When the U.S. and Britain invade France, let General Eisenhower make expedient little side deals with whatever French group or groups happen to be most handy. The underground organizations which have risked their necks for Gaullism may or may not be called upon to help put France...