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London reported last week that the Germans had advised Pius to seek refuse in Liechtenstein, the tiny (65 sq. mi.) Catholic principality tucked in the mountains between Switzerland and Germany. But Pius would not voluntarily leave his neutral haven...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...Tons per Sq. Mi. They also knew what air attack would not do. For nearly 22 months, since Major James Devereux and the last of his Marines were overwhelmed, the Jap had been building on Wake. In 48 hours 600 tons of high explosive, some half million .50-caliber bullets struck the atoll's four square miles. At 150 tons of high explosive per sq. mi., it was the most concentrated attack on any Pacific target...
...Sinkiang. It is a land of great deserts, oases, of some 4,000,000 Moslems and Chinese; a nomads' land of some 12,000,000 sheep, 2,000,000 horses, 50,000 camels; a land whose exact area is unknown (estimates: 400,000 to 700,000 sq. mi.). Into this vast area, no foreign journalist had been allowed to go for many years. Out of it had come only rumor and secondhand report...
Since 1933 the California Arabian Standard Oil Co. (owned 50-50 by Standard Oil Co. of California and Texas Co.) has been leasing concessions from Ibn Saud until today it controls an area 60% larger than California (254,000 sq. mi.), including all the promising fields. Now the U.S. Government itself is negotiating with California Arabian Standard and presumably with Ibn Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate...