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British warships from Alexandria took another point-blank crack at Marshal Graziani's expeditionary base at Bardia. During the week, the Italians claimed extension of their drive into Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...
...Fumimaro Konoye was to have his way, it looked as if Cabinets might change no more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet...
...Almost at the same moment as we bombed I felt a thump, and the aircraft lurched to the right. A pom-pom shell had gone through the starboard wing. Then another shell hit the same wing between the fuselage and the engine. They were firing pretty well at point-blank range. It was all over in a few seconds. The navigator called out. 'O.K. finish.' Then we turned away...
...must be to throttle the flow of supplies without which Japan would long since have had to cry uncle. The second alternative, a deal, could never be negotiated without the thing which the embargo gave the U. S. for the first time-a bargaining advantage as visible as a point-blank muzzle. Finally, if the U. S. should choose that old Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled...
Spaniards and Finns learned how to repel light tanks extemporaneously with gasoline bottles. The French and British learned last week that the only sure way to stop Germany's durable tank corps of today is by massed field-gun fire at point-blank range. Batteries of the famed French 753 were trundled into position last week at Rethel, Guise, Landrecies and Le Cateau. French tanks tried to break up the advancing formations of the German tanks. Sometimes encounters became individual, each tank trying for a glancing blow to tip its opponent over. Dust, smoke and debris obscured the milling...