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...attack there had been political stupidities. In September, Thai land, air and sea officers were given a thorough and amiable tour of inspection of Singapore's defenses; Thailand was now a Jap pawn. Well before the attack Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had offered Chinese troops to help defend British territory; the British had turned down the offer. At this late hour something was finally being done about mobilizing Malaya's 2,200,000 Japanophobe Chinese as air wardens, propagandists, guerrillas...
...decide how to defend the Burma Road, one of Democracy's two vital lifelines (see p. 18), one of the world's greatest men, one of Britain's greatest generals and one of the U.S.'s greatest hopefuls met for three days last week. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek received Britain's Indian Commander, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, and the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Major General George H. Brett. They met to devise the ABCs of Allied land and air strategy...
Units of Rommel's forces that had not retreated beyond Bengasi were caught on the Barca Plateau. This was the area the Axis had hoped to defend to block the advancing British. They apparently stumbled over it in retreat, for this week Rommel's armored units and the Italian infantry appeared to be sprawled from Cyrene toward Tripoli...
When the committee finally cast its vote last week, not one of Bill Langer's Republican colleagues cared to defend him. Three Democrats-"Cotton Ed"; Smith, Tom Connally, Abe Murdock-cast dissenting votes, on the grounds that, whatever Bill Langer had done, the people of North Dakota had chosen him for their Senator...
...most tempting target for air attack in Jarman's bailiwick is, of course, New York City. To defend it in its entirety, Jarman would have to divide the city into 6,000-yd. squares, place an anti-aircraft battery at the corner of each square. But in case of a raid, he will be quite happy if he can protect power plants, aircraft factories, docks and shipyards...