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Last week the results of long-range Allied strategy burst into full bloom. The little Allied drives, inching through meaningless territory, had turned into a coordinated, full-sized offensive. 'Its main plan: to cut up the Jap forces (some 50,000 men) in north-central Burma; to drive southward...
...audacious-but it was the calm audacity of a gambler who bets his stack on a four-ace hand. The main striking force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-so much greater than any other of the world's fleets that such comparisons have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...
...erase their names without cause, other than the accident of birth and race, reduces our honor rolls to an array of meaningless painted boards. To the American Legion Post of Hood, Ore., three hearty Bronx cheers! EVANGELINE S. McALLISTER (The Sage Hen) Bayard...
...adopted the title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five republics shortly after armed Indians revolted, led by a former pig-driver called the Angel Rafael. Ever since, the Ladinos had kept the little countries in turmoil with a meaningless, serial struggle between political ins & outs, usually labeled "Liberals" and "Conservatives...
...Belgium's Leopold III, is a prisoner of the Nazis. Another, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele III, is a somewhat down-at-the-heel cobelligerent of the United Nations. Only a choice few can do more than twiddle their royal thumbs or try on their more & more meaningless crowns for size...