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...Schlieben's small, holdout groups achieved a few hours more delay. Time & again U.S. troops cleared one level of a Vauban-Todt fort, only to have Germans emerge in their rear from a lower level. Schlieben's tunnel system at first yielded 300 Nazi moles; from the sub-basement finally came 500 more...
Last week Harry J. Baker was in Matanuska, while officers at army posts and naval bases throughout the territory clamored for his services. Wherever he goes, people stop him on the street, begging for appointments. Within the past month, traveling by PT boat, barge and sub chaser, he has ranged as far as Adak in the Aleutians...
...treaty of Lausanne, fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...
...Navy had confidently told WPB that it was giving the workers six weeks' notice. But stopping delivery of completed planes (at Brewster's assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa.) six weeks hence had meant the prompt shutdown of Brewster in Long Island City, which makes sub-assembly parts far in advance. The Navy, doing things its own way, had not troubled to find out how Brewster operated, before moving in on the kill. And Franklin Roosevelt's two high-powered agencies to handle reconversion (in WPB and OWM) had been asleep when the violence was done...
Work among prisoners in the Far East is not so thorough. But since Pearl Harbor the Y has given limited relief to Americans in 70 camps or sub-camps in Japan. And recently it won Jap consent to purchase in the Philippines $25,000 worth of supplies monthly for American prisoners there...