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From the Solomons, New Guinea. For 19 months, Rabaul has been the main objective of MacArthur's slow campaign across the eastern end of the New Guinea Peninsula, and of the Allies' converging drive up the ladder of the Solomons...
East of Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...
...White House grounds were a billowing of bright new snow under a lead-grey sky. In his office the President spoke to reporters amiably, but his face was tired. The important news, he declared, was the capture at last by U.S. and Australian forces of the Huon Peninsula in New Guinea. From Italy there was nothing new. It was a very tense situation, the President observed mildly. But we should realize that we still have control of the sea -subject to bombing attacks-and control of the air. On both accounts we are praying for good weather, he added...
...Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force...
More monuments to human genius are crowded into the Italian peninsula than into any other like area in the world. If Italy is steadily bombed or shelled, man's most concentrated cultural record may be destroyed. This dilemma reverberated in the letters column of the London Times last week. The issue-Art v. Human Life in Wartime-was first raised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 62). "It would indeed be lamentable," he wrote, "if by the action of our armies . . . incomparable treasures of the history of art and of religion were destroyed...