Word: logically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan might well feel that the time for Siberia was not now, or for some time to come. The logic of Japan's war called not only for attacks on Siberia, but on Australia and India (see p. 26) as well. They were all great, potentially threatening flanks of the huge new empire Japan had so speedily carved for herself...
...would Japan follow the logic of the war she had started? Each logical step was attended by horrible chances. Perhaps she was ready to take the chances. But perhaps Japan would ignore logic's cold advice. If she merely stood her ground, she would still offer a mighty challenge to the United Nations, who had thus far only pecked at the edges of her conquests...
Last week, defiant of military logic, the Royal Navy made another try. Not since last June, when Axis raiders unmercifully pounded a fleet of slow-moving Allied cargo vessels in the western Mediterranean, have the United Nations tried to push another convoy through that hazardous sea. The Axis, entrenched along the shores where the sea funnels into the 100-mile-wide straits south of Sicily, boasted that it could not be done...
Thus last week did a tragic hour, damned by logic and twisted by emotionalism, come to the subcontinent of India. In a crisis caused by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's threat of open revolt, the British struck first. The slamming of jail doors on the leaders of the Indian National Congress party was their answer to Gandhi's demand for immediate Indian independence...
...short Winston Churchill's defense was basically as optimistic as it was obviously sincere. But in the cold light of logic it was not so completely convincing as it was in the golden rumble of still unsurpassed oratory. He left the United Nations to hope that he and his friend Franklin Roosevelt had selected the right military commanders and were listening to the commanders they had chosen. Those facts, not susceptible of proof by oratory, remained to be seen...