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...Alaska, to the daily shame of the U.S., sat the Japs. Across the Don in Russia the Nazis fought their way; Rommel was getting up steam again in Egypt; and the formerly isolationist Scripps-Howard newspapers clamored for an all-out air attack on Germany which would thus avert the bloody necessity of the U.S. coming squarely to grips with the enemy. The British were beginning to believe their leaders had deceived them in their promises (or hints) of a second front this year; the desperate Russians had begun to tell their people that everything depended on their own soldiers...
...promised in a fireside chat which was broadcast throughout the world, that he will use all the executive power at his command to carry out the seven-point anti-inflation and war economy policy which he submitted to Congress Monday and which he restated tonight as necessary to avert economic disaster...
...Germany was a year ago. In front of Japan, the war is going according to her plan, but dare she keep going without removing the threat in her rear? For years the Japanese press and her military leaders have shouted: "[We] cannot sleep peacefully a single hour. ... To avert ... a catastrophe it is necessary to strike quickly in the direction of Vladivostok...
...that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...
Finally, a blow at Germany's western flank would not be entirely detached from the Pacific war. Such a blow, whether through France or Norway, would delay-and might avert-a Nazi drive through the Near and Middle East toward a junction with Japan in India. To have Russia in the war against Japan would be worth fleets and armies to the U.S. And it seemed last week that only two things-an Allied second front in Europe or Japanese attack on Russia-could bring Russia into the Pacific...