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...problem of China overshadowed all others. For China occupies in Asia a strategic position somewhat like that of Germany in Europe. If it was true that whoever dominated Germany dominated Europe, it was also true that whoever dominated China dominated Asia. The problem was even vaster. For if the Chinese Communist state-within-a-state should ever dominate China, the combination of a Communist China's 450,000,000 people and Communist Russia's 190,000,000 people might by sheer numbers and economic resources dominate the world...
Maps and Money. Moscow, Lauterbach reported, seems vaster, busier, more confident than it was eight years ago when he last saw it. "The people look thinner, laugh less. Nearly everybody has a member of his immediate family wounded or killed. The war is followed closely and intently by families scrutinizing the great colored wall maps which hang everywhere. I searched Moscow for a week for a map and finally found a store that expected a shipment in the morning. The map is not good but sold out a thousand in a few hours...
Need for Speed. Time is short for the Allies. For good weather from Norway's North Cape to Cairo, they must strike Europe decisively before October. Just as Rommel shook the Americans out of offensive positions in Tunisia, the Germans might daringly attempt to disrupt the vaster forces of an incipient invasion, either in Africa or Britain. Or they may choose to carry out Hitler's published intent, solidify the defenses of western and southern Europe, and prepare yet another summer blow at Russia, where they are still within 125 miles of Moscow. In any one of these...
...greatest air offensive in military history hammered day & night at her factories, her transportation system and the morale of her people. It had not yet reached the fury of a systematic 1,000-planes-a-night push against her 31 key cities (TIME, Sept. 7). Yet Germany was suffering vaster and more continuous blows than Britain took in the blitz of 1940's autumn, and she was taking them from instruments vastly improved in destructive power...
...calculating that in 1943 we can invade the European mainland? The entire equation will have been transformed and totally against us. The best that we could hope for then would be a whole cycle of campaigns to force the entrenched enemy out of a still vaster central fortress...