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Knock Out the Runway. Since Jimmy Doolittle's deed of April 18, the Japanese have been quite naturally obsessed by fear that the United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
...Burma Road, behind the south-marching Chinese, another Jap force sprang up. Apparently it had come from Indo-China. Chiang, blinded by lack of reconnaissance, wheeled to meet this attack...
...From Indo-China the Jap took a vital supply of rice and minerals; from Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage...
...from the hills. Even if they did, Britain had the big harbor, could clean them out later, although the island is more than twice as big as Great Britain. But few thought that the French on Madagascar would show very persistent zeal. If France had let the Jap have Indo-China, there was little point in dying to save Madagascar from the British...
...fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came out a full-fledged U.P. correspondent...