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...quiet. But the outer supply routes of the world were athrong with ships, men and supplies : around the world's fat waist in the Indian Ocean and the south Pacific; around its chest in the Atlantic and north Pacific; around its neck above the Arctic Circle off Norway, in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands. The interior lines were jammed: jammed with soldiers moving up on German and Russian railroads and highways, jammed with little men slipping down the south China Sea and through the southern straits to the Indies and east toward India...
North of the Arctic Circle the winter-bitten Germans coiled sluggishly to strike. Russian intelligence learned from prisoners and from their own aviators that the Nazis were preparing an offensive against Murmansk, on the Barents Sea end of one tube through which Britain and the U.S. feed supplies to Russia...
...weathered a British torpedo-plane attack, lay under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain's supply lines to Russia's Arctic ports? Or were they plotting a foray against U.S.-held Iceland...
...Axis finally shuts the pincers and controls the Indian Ocean, China's hopes of supplies through Russia and isolated India will vanish; the only remaining feasible routes from the U.S. to the Middle and Near East will be lost. Russia would have to fall back on uncertain, insufficient Arctic routes...
...Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience. Two lecture-goers had heard him say that, after a fall through the ice, he stripped in 40-below weather, dried his clothes with snow. The two dared him to do it again. Sir Hubert's price...