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...East had arrived but the West was too busy to bother. The twain did not meet until this week, when some of the mission were finally allowed to sit in on a session of the United Nations High Command...
Sumadija. When Hitler's Stukas bombed Belgrade on April 6, 1941, Mihailovich had a coastal command in Herzegovina. As the Nazis overwhelmed General Dusan Simovich's bravely fighting army, Mihailovich retreated eastward into mountainous Sumadija, where Serbia had long fought the Turks. Thousands of disbanded or unmobilized Yugoslavian troops joined him, bringing their arms and equipment. The force was swelled by peasants and mountaineers...
...queen-Hearst Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons-is not exactly dead. But her whims no longer command Hollywood. She still has 17,000,000 newspaper circulation, according to Hearst's I.N.S., through "several hundred outlets." But at one stride Hedda had reached a circulation of 5,750,000 daily (7,500,000 Sunday) through only 27 papers...
...last week the evidence piled up that the armchair strategists, not the Navy, were behind the times-for the Navy has turned the corner while its critics still call for the corner to be turned. A profound reorganization of the Navy high command is under way-and the men coming up are airmen. Navy thinking recognizes clearly that sea power is in transition again, a transition as great and as clearly marked as that of a century ago, when steam revolutionized blue-water warfare. Pearl Harbor ended an epoch in naval history-an end to which the sinking of H.M.S...
...battleships built or on the ways, plus battle-cruisers of 12,000-15,000 tons. Down Battleship? What blue-water men would like to say, but cannot, is that there is no real argument. An enormous forward step is being taken: placing air officers in command of Navy task forces in which air strength predominates-and most U.S. task forces are now organized around air power. The needs of the war had wrought the change: the task forces which intercepted the Japs in the Coral Sea and smashed at the Marshalls were built around carriers because of the need...