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...statements about the present condition of British politics which would be almost universally recognized to be true. One is that neither of the two large parties evokes the slightest enthusiasm in the ranks of the people. The other is that these two parties are so firmly in command of the machinery of politics that there is no prospect for a long time of dislodging either or both of them...
Last week the Navy command lifted a corner of the censorship that has been as thick as the Aleutian fog bank. U.S. forces, said the Navy, had been entrenched on one of the Andreanof Islands since Sept. i. Which island was not disclosed, but any one of the Andreanofs (which are part of the Aleutians) is well within fighter range of the main Japanese base at Kiska...
...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...
Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
...morale, the proposed treaty between the United Nations and China which would eliminate all foreign territorial rights in that battle-agonized nation is obviously the substitute which a hard-pressed America and Britain are sending to the East instead of armed strength. For once again, the Allied political command has realized that military aid is impossible, that moral support and promises are the only recourses left to eager allies. China has been promised that she will be free and unified after the war. She has been guaranteed the abandonment of that greedy imperialistic policy by which the nations...