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Japan's first blow in mid-April fell on tough, little Tang En-po, one of Chung king's ablest generals. But Tang's tactical skill could not make up for the inadequate weapons of his men, for the lack of air cover, for the incredibly meager trans port facilities...
...divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran T'ang En-po...
From Pescara to Po...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...stand behind the Volturno River, where the old Romans posted a garrison and Garibaldi beat the Neapolitans. Above Rome, they might run a barricade along the Apennines, from La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea to Rimini on the Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes...