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...Asiatic Fleet based on Manila. The shaft of the spear is the line between the Philippines and Honolulu. The fist that wields the spear is Admiral Kimmel's fleet, based among the naval shops and the complicated waterways of Pearl Harbor. As long as the Navy could maintain this base, the spear could strike where it was aimed in the Far East. So strategists, thinking of the shaft in terms of the supply it must carry, called it the lifeline of the Pacific...
...rate will be to high in the hard days to come. Under the present system of service there can be no lower price. With food prices going up and with the labor market shifting in favor of the workers, it seems improbable that the Administration will be able to maintain it even next year...
...course fee for three-year students. President Eliot used to sustain a theory that a professor should be satisfied with a low salary because of the honor of teaching at Harvard. This system will work no longer. Harvard must pay to keep the best teachers available in order to maintain its standards above those of the state universities...
...that if they could isolate the Germans east of Tobruk, they would eventually wear them down. The German tactic was to join all forces into one phalanx of machinery (south of Gambut) and take on the smaller British units one by one. Because the British were trying to maintain an encirclement, they necessarily had to scatter their forces. This gave the Germans, concentrating the remnants of one Italian and two German mechanized divisions, the advantage of being able to attack a brigade at a time. Advance British units pushed on west of Tobruk...
...have allowed anyone held by the Home Secretary to appeal to an "independent tribunal." Defending 18B, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said: "Unpleasant as this regulation is, obnoxious as it is to British tradition, obnoxious as it is to me (I do not like this regulation; nobody would wish to maintain it just for the fun of the thing), it is vital to the security of the country in time...