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Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
After the capture of Tunis, Anderson's army paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units were badly split and their communications were cut. Liaison was impossible. Some corps and division headquarters surrendered before their soldiers had the order to cease fire...
...great-circle routes from the U.S. to the world's biggest trade centers, for example, pass over Can ada. Many of them pass over China, Rus sia, India. And landing rights for all the world are needed in the smaller countries like Sweden, Belgium, Holland, British Malaya. Egypt - all the places in the world where there is trade, or where trade might...
...some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another through Malaya. For some time a pool of perhaps 250-300 aircraft had been gradually building up at Rabaul, a reserve pool and a Zero assembly plant at Kavieng. Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua area of eastern New Guinea was so clearly...
...Malaya, Weller found equally omi nous differences. British mistrust of native qualities was paralleled by Malayan hatred for the 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst...