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...major action was actually in the making, the Japs might well be anxious to create a diversion. In Canberra last week the Australian Government announced that it had "ample evidence" that the Japanese were preparing "a move of the utmost importance." All along the great arc of islands above Australia new concentrations had been sighted. Reconnaissance had spotted new airfields on Timor, 300 miles from Darwin. The increasing tempo of Allied raids directed at Timor and the naval base of Amboina was a measure of Australian nervousness...
...Fred Allison and his collaborators of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, applying a magneto-optic method of analysis, a thousand times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, and his clique of aristocratic Magyar officials had long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
Francisco Franco looked north and saw German troops concentrated on the Spanish-French border. To the south, U.S. and British forces formed a virtual arc around Spanish Morocco. From the U.S. in the west had come assurances of peaceful intentions if Spain remained neutral. From Italy in the east, Franco's onetime ally, harassed Benito Mussolini, cried out hopefully: "There is no longer any distinction between Fascism, Naziism and Falangism...
...time Rommel's lines were shattered, the three Partisan armies had joined forces, under a unified command, and re-christened themselves the "Army of National Liberation." They organized the first continuous front in this irregular war-an arc about 100 miles long running from Slunj to Sitnica-and moved westward, sweeping one village after another from the surprised Germans and the Fascist Ustachi...