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Though he is usually as sad and quiet as a Chinese willow, the Gissimo sometimes flies into sudden noisy furies. The BBC report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests...
Significantly different from these books of doom in pulse, pace and outlook is a story of war and sudden death by U. S. Author Leland Jamieson. It is a simple, all-action narrative (recently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) about outnumbered U. S. planes and a power-diving hero in an undeclared Blitzkrieg against the U. S. Fatigue sickens the young airman, fear of death cramps his stomach muscles, terror of being lost at sea in the night momentarily deprives him of his senses. But the last thing he thinks about is the end of the world...
Landing attacks are of all military operations the most difficult. For minutes while they are in small boats heading for the beach, troops are helplessly exposed to fire from shore. By sudden descents initial landings may be made, but then they must be quickly widened and deepened to five miles or more to keep the field artillery of the defenders from pounding the landing parties on the beachhead. Next, to land heavy equipment including larger guns and tanks as well as men in numbers for a major invasion it is necessary to bring large vessels into shore. To protect these...
...concession was an easy one for SEC, which will still have time to issue stop orders against dubious issues. Nor did it betoken a sudden return to 1929 prosperity for the investment bankers. Reasons: 1) it will not help them to compete any more successfully with the insurance companies, whose direct purchases of new securities have enabled many a big borrower to by-pass the market entirely; 2) defense expansion, being mainly for emergency, non-commercial purposes, will probably be financed more by bank and RFC loans than by public offerings of long term debt or stock...
...real stake in this war is the command of the maritime communications of the Atlantic Ocean." Last week Major George Fielding Eliot, military expert, so reasoned from the British action in seizing part of the French Fleet. The sudden U. S. agitation about the Monroe Doctrine and a realization that command of the Atlantic was vital to U. S. security confirmed this view. Alone, said Major Eliot, the U. S. Fleet cannot control the Atlantic, must therefore prolong British resistance and if possible keep the British Fleet in being. On these tenets he laid down in the New York Herald...