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...been because Lord Lothian had fallen down as an Ambassador. Pacing his littered study in the Embassy he was saying (between transatlantic phone calls and visits to the State Department) what he had said when he arrived: that the prize for which Hitler was contending was command of the sea. The only difference was that he now said it more forcefully, and his eyes behind his plastic-rimmed glasses were more challenging, less genial...
...third year, summer of 1939, opened with spectacular Chinese victories in Shansi Province. The Japanese shook up their high command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing...
...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...Channel Islanders almost were too late. Though London announced that the isles were demilitarized, triads of German "flying pencils" (Dorniers) last week swooped low, unopposed, to bomb and machine-gun what the German High Command called "troop concentrations." Eyewitnesses reported the blasting of lines of trucks carrying tomatoes and potatoes, the slaughter of a score of civilians at one dock in Guernsey. Following the bombings, the Channel Islands were taken over by German troops from the mainland, who scoured the shores and interiors for hidden British observers left behind...
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