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...story of Norway since the conquest shows that while a free democracy may be slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic when aroused. At home, the Norwegian people have silently resisted the invaders' will with grim determination. Abroad, Norwegian ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the cause of the United Nations...
...until a communiqué announced renewal of the assault on Madagascar did most of the public realize that Madagascar had never been under effective control of the United Nations. Britain's conquest had come to an abrupt halt after the invaders finished, mopping up scattered French resistance in the hills rimming Diégo-Suarez Bay. For 1,000 miles southward through the rest of the island Vichy-french officials had not come to terms. Last week the British really got down to taking control of Madagascar's ports, mineral wealth and agricultural resources...
...Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile fields of Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Jap said he was preparing for other work. Probably he was. But as he thinned out his garrisons, the foundations of his conquest were magically washed away, and Chiang's soldiers found it suddenly easy to speed him on his retreat...
...their immediate southern line, somewhere near the Volga, or to withdraw to their bastions in the Urals. Then the Germans will measure their huge losses in men, planes, tanks and guns against the sure wear of winter, against the certainty that this year or never they must seal their conquest in southern Russia with victory in the Middle East. Then Hitler will know. Then the world will know. Not before...
...only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...