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...made a guess last week that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...
Reason for this sudden interest in subs was the realization that, apart from the airplane, the 1942-model sub is the best U.S. bet for an offensive weapon. Weighing over 1,500 tons and 300-plus feet long, it shoots torpedoes fore & aft, carries quick-firing cannon and anti-aircraft guns, is fast enough to keep up with any fleet. It can cruise on its own for months, with a radius of 20,000 miles. From any angle the sub looked like the best way to clip the tensing strings of Japan's supply lines...
Harry Hopkins said that he was in London to discuss confidential matters With Mr. Churchill; what could be more confidential than a plan for counterinvasion of Europe? General Marshall said that his sudden visit was just a long-intended look-see. But the press preferred to accent General Marshall's casual answer to a casual query. Said he (when asked whether soldiers accustomed to U.S. spaces would feel cramped in England): "We want to expand over here...
...many people in Venezuela last week the comic-strip shortage was a sudden reminder that the war was getting to be a serious business...
Happily out of step with its own martial policy, University Hall has shown leniency in a manner hardly expected in these ditch-jumping days. Amazingly fair has been the policy adopted toward Harvard Pacifists' objections to compulsory military exercise; objections to a program brought about not by a sudden interest in sports, but distinctly as a war measure...