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Lowell led all the way against the Funsters in a loosely played contest. Starring for the Bellboys were Dave Barnett, high scorer with ten points, and Bill Thomson, who covered the where court to amass eight counters. For the Dunster quintet Sam Post and Jim Silberling led the forward line in scoring...
London and Washington, even the hard realists at Melbourne and Sydney, seemed to think that the Japs might be content for the present with drives at northern and northeastern Australia. If so, the U.S. and Australia would have time to amass land, air and naval forces in the south. But "to be content for the present" did not sound like the Japs of Indo-China, Manila, Malaya, Singapore, Burma and Java...
...attack via the Aleutians and the Marianas, the U.S. must amass more carriers, more shipping, more aircraft. Then it must fight for the bases. All this means that full-scale attacks from the north and center are possibilities for the future. How far in the future depends mainly on how fast the U.S. musters its offensive will and spirit, gets additional aircraft carriers into service, and reconstructs its naval thinking around the assault airplane...
...Pacific. Desolate, vulnerable northern Australia would be hard to defend against determined Japanese attack. But Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin was speaking for as well as to the U.S. last week when he said that southern Australia must be held. There the U.S. can amass land and air forces; there it can base the naval forces necessary for an attempt to recapture the Indies and drive on toward Malaya and Japan from the south...
...brutally unfair--you must read the book to appreciate fully the tremendous breadth of Professor Sorokin's knowledge--but it does allow of at least one equally sketchy criticism of the method of analysis; Sorokin has started out with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove his oscillation among dominant types...