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Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...
...Japan could keep on fighting. Max Werner takes the simple view that "pure sea power-ship v. ship-no longer means much." To the Japanese, the Pacific Ocean was merely a highway; warships were mainly vehicles for transporting the men & weapons of land-air power to the places of conquest. Thus, it will take U.S. land & air power, supported by incidental sea power, to recover what the Japanese seized...
...Vichy's War Secretary, Lieut. General Eugene Bridoux, referred bitterly to the British conquest of Madagascar (see p.21) and said: "Tomorrow new assaults may be conducted against certain of our territories. These assaults, if they should occur, must find us strong and in a position to fight...
...simultaneous or successive moves against Casablanca and other key points on the long French African coast between Dakar and the Mediterranean. Every move up that coast would be a move to: 1) cut off Rommel's forces in their rear; 2) bar the Germans' way to complete conquest of North Africa; 3) restore Allied control of the western Mediterranean; 4) assist a thrust into Germany's southern Europe...
...Slowly" meant "not without losses" (see p. 36); "surely" meant progress only at those points along the great arc of Japanese conquest (see map) where the U.S. struck early and hard...