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...Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet. Only other way to prolong the deadlock was to end direct aid to Japan...
...brought up in the U. S. by a hardy Oregon woman, who had talked more with U. S. correspondents than any other Tokyo leader, knew pretty well the U. S. state of mind. He knew that Americans considered the China war a nuisance (since it kept the U. S. Fleet tied down in the wrong ocean), a tragedy (because the weaker and righter side seemed to U. S. citizens to be the same), a reproach (because self-righteous Americans thought the U. S. should have been able to end the war long ago). But hfc also knew that...
Last time, with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...
With this small force strategically placed, the British hoped to held the eastern Mediterranean. If the Italians succeeded in taking Egypt and the Canal by land or sea, the British Fleet or what remained of it might flee, the Canal might be blocked, but Egypt's teeming millions, whose bond to the British, whom they dislike, is only that they dislike the Italians more, could offer no opposition. There would be imminent danger that the Arabs of Palestine, still piqued at Britain's unfulfilled promises of 1915, would revolt. And certainly the termini at Haifa and Tripoli...
...South Charleston, W. Va. All these plants, said Bethlehem's boss, mackerel-jawed Eugene Grace, are adding or about to add to their capacity. Through its shipbuilding division, Bethlehem is also the U. S. Navy's No. 1 private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building (and taking title to) additions to Bethlehem's shipyards. Bethlehem engineers, said Steelmaker Grace last week, are expanding its San Francisco yards to build destroyers, converting its ship-repair facilities at Staten Island into ways for smaller ships...