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...Battle of the Atlantic was not waged solely by German U-boats and Allied sub-hunters. During the desperate winter of 1942-43, when Nazi wolf packs were sinking as much as 700,000 tons of shipping a month, the U.S. Navy and the Army Air Forces were locked in their own flaming battle. Poking up the dying embers this week, ex-Secretary of War Henry Stimson devoted the second installment of his memoirs in the Ladies' Home Journal to his own frankly partisan version of this feud...
...Navy," wrote Stimson, "that escort was not merely one way of defeating the submarine; it was the only way that gave any promise of success." The admirals felt that the airman's job was merely to help guard convoys. The airmen argued that planes were the most efficient sub killers. It was a squabble which was never finally settled...
Last week, with another spring on the way, anti-foreign mobs burned the British Consulate-General in Canton, rioted in Shanghai's streets.* More perilous to the cause of Nationalist China were the gathering Communist offensives all the way from sub-zero Manchuria down to the fertile "rice bowl" of the south...
...light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin its rival and sabotage partition of the sub-continent. Foreign Minister Khan, unlike other representatives of accused nations wants to reach an agreement, not merely air the difficulties, fail his opponents with verbose charges, solemnly declare for peace...
...inane inclination of the average American to ... almost genuflect at the presence of a European title, phony or otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe...