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MELBOURNE--The Japanese held a third New Guinea beach head tonight only 120 miles by good road from Port Moresby and a potential central base for stronger air forays over the Coral Sea area, which, Premier John Curtin said, "shows clearly the menace to Australia has not diminished...
Victories in the Coral Sea and off Midway brought Admiral Chester W. Nimitz the Distinguished Service Medal last week for "exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet." The white-haired CINCPAC received his decoration aboard a battleship in a West Coast port, but he almost came to grief during his visit to the U.S. mainland. In an accident while landing at a coast airport, the co-pilot of his plane was killed, two passengers injured slightly. The Admiral was little the worse for wear...
That state of mind was not to be found in the Army or Navy. At Wake, Bataan, the Coral Sea, Midway and in every other theater of war they have shown their eagerness to make an all-out effort now. Nor was that state of mind to be found in the factories. Last week President Roosevelt said that May war production was 4,000 planes, 1,500 tanks, 2,000 artillery pieces, more than 100,000 machine-and submachine guns...
Since the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japs had done little but raid Darwin and Port Moresby inconclusively. To these attacks, bombers under General MacArthur's command had replied with raids on Jap bases in New Britain, New Guinea, Timor and one 800-mile thrust at Celebes. But, by the standards of global war, this was relative quiet along a South Pacific front which three months ago seemed destined for more of the war's hottest fighting...
Most controversial selection of the issue is "Ceylon: Key to Victory," by R. W. Komer '42. Had it been printed two months ago, this article might well have rated as one of the best in Guardian history, but the Battles of Midway and the Coral Sea have robbed it of most of its significance. The author's thesis, that Japan will strike next at India, is answered by implication in another part of the issue, Dr. Reischauer's short note entitled "Japanese Strategy." Recent developments have indicated that Dr. Reischauer is closer to the truth, but Komer's logistic reasoning...