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...bombed positions at Lae and Salamaua (see map), barred from Port Moresby by great mountains. He would set the force down at Buna, near the head of a mountain road, primitive but passable, that led across to Port Moresby. Thus he could get at the thorn. Once he got rid of the thorn, he could launch his attack at thinly held northern Australia or spread east through the flanking island chain as his restless, never-idle sense of movement dictated...
Reaction. In Coffeyville, Kans., a taxpayer walked into the county treasurer's office to find out what he owed. When he was told, he ran away screaming, eventually got rid of a bee that had gotten inside his shirt...
...everybody is trying desperately to figure out what will happen next. Much depends on whether the generals can inspire new confidence among the men. The task falls mainly to strong, silent General Auchinleck who, though lacking the warm personality of Wavell, has worked wonders in the last year, getting rid of brass hats and teaching officers to take their kid gloves off. Only a few people think that Egypt is as good as lost; many more are pinning their faith on the Tommies' renowned ability to fight best with their backs to the wall. The official view is that...
...lack of U.S. export licenses. The Rios regime was turning out more Rightist than they had hoped. Senator Fernando Alessandri Rodriguez had whipped behind the President the full support of the Rightist Liberal Party. Semi-Fascist Falangists had begun to appear in key posts. Rightists were trying to get rid of Socialist ministers, one of the most pro-U.S. groups in Chile...
...deep patience of the colored peoples is at an end. Everywhere among them there is the same resolve for freedom and equality that white Americans and British have, but it is a grimmer resolve, for it includes the determination to be rid of white rule and exploitation and white race prejudice, and nothing will weaken this will...