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From then on it was just a matter of steady advance in the face of stubborn and well-coordinated rear-guard actions. The British-Greek line, which held together well, fell back to shield Larissa and Yanina in the Pindus Mountains, then back to the narrowing of the peninsula between Lamia and Arta. Early this week the Germans had reached Thermopylae, 100 miles from Athens, and were still going strong; and the British and Greeks had not much left to be glad for except that they had killed a lot of Germans and some time...
...Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula, but they did not invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in misty beauty above monasteries perching like fabulous castles on crags above the sea. Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery, Vatopédi, Simöpetra, bastioned Dionysiou (which proudly possesses the brain and right hand of Saint John...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
...among its 600-odd mandated islands that lie in unpronounceable profusion in the vast wastes of the Western Pacific. It had been told often enough that a Japanese grab of The Netherlands East Indies would leave the Japanese dominating U. S. trade routes to the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, thereby threatening its sources of rubber...
Threats of war, no matter how forcefully pronounced, should not be part of the diplomacy of a country which does not have the wish to back them up. This country has no desire to send its sailors and pilots to the Malay peninsula. What our policy must be is material aid and as much of it as possible. We must send planes and ships so that the British can maintain their precious line of supply. We must serve as an arsenal for the forces of democracy in the Far East as well as in Europe, but we must draw...