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...pointed to a move to the south. The press started a campaign designed to show that Great Britain, the U.S. and Chungking were plotting the "encirclement" of Japan. There were hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at the easiest mark, Domei accused French Indo-China of persecuting pro-Japanese Annamites, of maintaining "close economic, military and political relations with Great Britain and the United States." Domei called for "counter-measures." The Japan Times and Advertiser, Foreign Office mouthpiece, said flatly: "If the alarming picture of anti-Japanese operations...
Green Fields, Blue Sky. Terrain and season defined the campaign. The easiest area for attack was the central plain just above and below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
Germany's total output of oil products, including both imports and synthetic production, is thought to equal only 5% of U.S. production of crude oil, though no one knows exactly how much synthetic fuel she produces. In synthesis, it is easiest to produce gasoline (composed of lighter, simpler molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...
...perennial disturbers of the world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. . . . The balance of the male civilian population...
From the bankers' standpoint, the first nine years of RFC were the easiest. Jesse Jones always said: "We only take what the banks leave over." When excoriating the New Deal, the bankers always made an exception of their friend and fellow businessman, Uncle Jesse. But last week this beautiful friendship was strained...