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...Navy views the Pacific (General MacArthur dissents), this campaign has been forced upon the U.S. by the caution of the Japanese Fleet, geography, and the development of modern weapons-particularly aircraft. The Pacific Fleet dares not steam straight across 5,000 miles of ocean through shoals of Japanese submarines, past the airfields in the Marshalls and the Carolines, and attempt to land an invasion force on the shores of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Nor, apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves...
First, and foremost, we bestow upon the staff (bless'em) our fond felicitations and trust that they will carry on in the true Harvard tradition. . .May they act with caution, dignity, and continue to administer according to the dictates of their infinite wisdom. . . . To Brother Busch, a baseball bat, a pencil eraser, a bad memory, who dozen boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven...
Synthetics meet all specifications of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. It calls them "a tremendous improvement," but not the equal of prewar balls. Players who have tried them add another caution: like all tennis balls before them, these have the same tendency...
...chief, the big shot. With eyes straight to the camera and, therefore, to the people of the world, he seems to sense that he is in the driver's seat, that he is No. 1 man. Yet there is present that suggestion of coldness and suspicion, call it caution or wariness if you will. He knows what he wants and he means...
...Department had burned its fingers by hastening to recognize the new government in Argentina, which turned out to be anti-Allied. Therefore Secretary of State Cordell Hull now moved with caution and suspicion on the question of recognizing the new Bolivian government. From the Department view, the deposed government of President Enrique Peñaranda, stooge of the tin-mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent...