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Home-guard guerrillas were organized in Australia as the Japs, advancing in New Guinea, advanced also toward the Australian mainland. Everybody in Australia knew that MacArthur's planes were too few, their crews overworked; that Australia invaded would be in dire straits. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Eraser, just home from the U.S., broadcast: "We shall have to steel ourselves for the next twelve months. . . . It's not enough simply to hold the enemy. The United Nations must advance...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
...tunes on a battery of peep-peep horns, bobbed from one brassy note to another, burping warnings. The German Elite Guards with "new arms" had marched through Paris in "a westerly direction." An invasion of Europe was "bound to have disastrous results for the U.S. and England. It threatens dire calamity to the Anglo-American conduct of the war." In Vichyfrance, Pierre Laval chimed in, proclaimed to Frenchmen that any aid to invaders would be drastically dealt with...
...army still stood. But the valiant Russians were yielding step by step the greater part of their European soil. They were falling back ever closer to Asia. Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the awful question: What if Russia fell? Whatever the probabilities, that dire possibility had to be faced. How would Russia's defeat tip the scales toward the Axis? How many men, how much oil, how many planes, what raw materials would be left to fight the Battle of the World...
...Butylene fell to Rubber Reserve Corp.; toluene (for TNT) to Army Ordnance; aviation gasoline to the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Something at last began to happen about six weeks ago. Its foundation was the sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program had to be frozen, and on a strictly string-saving basis at that...