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...Most Italians hate 1) Mussolini, 2) the 250,000 Germans quartered in Italy, 3) the British, who offset much of the enimity toward the Germans by the recent bombings of Milan, Turin, Genoa. For the Allies, the bombings have accomplished great material damage, and they have demoralized northern Italy. But the resentment against Britain is fierce, and many Italian citizens now oppose any suggestion of a negotiated peace with the British. Presumably the U.S. bombings of Naples are now having a similar effect...
Leaks and Arms. Other recent Japanese campaigns in China have had similar objectives. The occupation of Kwangchowan, a French-leased area, gave the Japanese a chance to build airfields to offset U.S.-operated fields in South China, but its main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade. In Shantung Province, one of the areas occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed that Britain has taken steps to offset the world-round impact of the U.S. Air Forces' Transport Commands-an operation which is solely for war, but is bound to blaze the way for U.S. commercial operations after the war. The R.A.F. has formed its own Transport Command to work with British Overseas Airways Corp., whose transport operations have been sadly crimped. The R.A.F.'s famed Ferry Command, which has been whisking bombers across the North Atlantic for almost two years and has lately spread to the South Atlantic, will be subordinated...
...been established, democracy in the ranks is still lacking. The refusal by the War Department of proposals for a mixed regiment has been one of the contributing factors to low morale among Negroes. So, too, has the failure of the Army to educate the soldier on racial problems, to offset prejudices not only against the Negro in the United States, but against our colored allies throughout the world. The War Department did not believe such information was necessary since "the colored soldier had won the respect of his white comrades." Meanwhile, minute data has been issued to American soldiers...
...traditional War Department policy of segregation has done nothing except further divide the Negro soldier from his white comrade-in-arms; it has divided the races spiritually as well as physically. Although only a token in its beginnings, the mixed regiment would offset the danger to national morale and unity inherent in segregation methods. Moreover, the organization of such a unit would have significant and heartening effect upon the morale of hundreds of millions of allies in China, India, and Africa who would find in it a concrete instance of the democratic ideal for which we fight...