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Only West African reports pleasing to the Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations. A crime condoned, the Manchurian Incident was followed by other acts of international brigandage until the entire...
...Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
Departing in Iranian Army trucks and carriages of the Trans Iranian Railway were the men whose presence had set off the brief Iranian war: Axis diplomats en route to Berlin and Rome, and Axis technicians en route to internment camps in India. The new Shah would have new international friends...
That the Red charge was a lot less ambitious was suggested by the fact that the Russians did not at once report the capture of many prisoners. But the Germans were forced to retire. If they retired much farther the Russians might recapture the most direct railway line from Leningrad to Odessa, might thus prevent Adolf Hitler from establishing valuable north-south communications east of the Pripet Marshes...