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...chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were able to do to such an invasion when the Japs tried to take Midway. To the north there is a temporary security which rests on the virtual certainty that Russia would not be willing to let the U.S. move...
...intend to go all-out in intensifying our air warfare," said "Andy" Andrews in London last week. "I believe very strongly in strategic bombing." Yet the Nazis could not take his appointment to mean that an invasion of the Continent would not also be launched from England. One of his jobs, said West Pointer Andrews, would be to "prepare for the reception of the large U.S. forces who undoubtedly will be brought to the United Kingdom...
...distilling industry is staging an all-out invasion of the wine business...
...against Britain). But they argue that Germany came with too little and that its little was stopped, perilously close to success, by independent air power from British soil, i.e., the R.A.F. Fighter Command. Yet by events and the utterances of Army ground generals they see only waning hope that an all-out air theater will be established in this...
...winter; in Rye, N.Y. Georgia-born daughter of a wealthy planter, as a young woman she was a painter and magazine illustrator, turned to social work and New York politics after her husband's death in 1916, was a longtime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. In Congress she was an all-out New Dealer and anti-war crusader, but voted aye on the declaration of war after Pearl Harbor...