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...Java. The Dutch had started the war with five cruisers: the loss was a severe blow to total cruiser strength in the Indies. For his losses, the Jap got his landings on Java (see p. 16). For the Allies, graver than their total loss in ships was the immediate threat to their last naval base in the Indies...
Even aside from the threat of surface raiders, the battle of the Atlantic was going badly. German torpedoes sent to the bottom a Canadian corvette and a Free French corvette, damaged a U.S. Coast Guard cutter so severely that it turned over while being towed to port and had to be sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy...
Defense regulations allowed only a printed statement: that the secret session was "devoted to the question of the defense of Canada in its widest qualification." But all Canada knew what "widest qualification" meant. The threat of a German fleet in the Atlantic, the possibility of Japanese invasion of Alaska and British Columbia demanded second thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which...
Moderator C. Crane Brinton, associate professor of History, led the group in a discussion of the Novelist's social responsibility, a discussion whose interest was enhanced by the universal recognition of the contemporary threat to the artist's freedom...
Contemporary significance was added by the remarks by Adam Yarmolinsky '43, who pointed out the difficulties facing the novelist in a time of total war. Not only is he faced by the threat of censorship and the shortage of printing material, but he must also find it impossible to view his topic with the impartiality necessary for valid literary effort...