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From the Iberian Peninsula came huffs & puffs from a Class 4-F dictator, sour, stolid Francisco Franco. Throttled, starving, hate-ridden Spain, said he, must prepare to "fight a new war of a moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...
...invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping...
...Deliberate intent not to instruct not train San Franciscans in evacuation from their hilly, water-bound peninsula...
...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...Japan were to hold the Soviet Coast and the Chukot Peninsula, opposite Alaska, she would dominate the North Pacific, and Alaska would be impotent. Meanwhile the Allies hold both jaws of the pincers; the authors urge that they use them...