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...Plan. Unfolding at Algiers that morning was a plan for the conquest of French North Africa. It was thorough and simple. Its initial objective was the seizure of the principal ports of French North Africa: Algiers and Oran on the Mediterranean, Casablanca on the Atlantic and Rabat, the capital of Morocco. These cities are more than ports and naval bases: they are also the keys to French North Africa's railways, highways and airdrome system (see p. 22), and to the political control of French Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia...
...Freedman 2GB, former Yale player, climaxed his conquest of Harvard Friday by defeating Varsity Captain Jim Jenkins, 6-3, 6-2, to win the University Tennis championship that the tied Al Everts for last fall...
...them. If those bases were utilized, U.S. bombers could, and no doubt would, hit at deeper, more vital sources of Jap power. The Japanese could see that, despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen Lattimore,* last week gave this blunt promise to Japan: "There will be a second front, not only in Europe but also in Asia...
...Three Bamboos is a novelized version of the history of Japan's famed House of Mitsui (Japanese for "The Three Wells"). It pictures that family as a succession of brilliant, cruel and profoundly devious fanatics, a power in Japan, dedicated for 50 years to a gamble for world conquest...
...private citizen, least of all a newspaper publisher, has ever before been decorated twice by the Mexican Government. First to make the grade is the Laredo (Texas) Times's Publisher William Prescott Allen, a collateral descendant of the historian William Prescott (The Conquest of Mexico). Fortnight ago he got the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Sixth Class),† plus a medal never before awarded to a civilian, Mexican or otherwise: the Military Order of Merit (Second Class...