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Last week, with supply still limited to backdoor lines from India, Chinese troops did the best they could, hacked cautiously at targets of opportunity. When Thai puppets suddenly deserted the Japanese, the Chinese seized the opportunity and dashed across the Indo-China frontier to take the minor port of Moncay on the Gulf of Tonkin. The capture of this position gave Chungking the hint of a corridor...
...protect her African keystone, France strongly fortified the hills around Bizerte harbor. But the Allied forces are approaching Bizerte, fortified for a sea attack, by a backdoor land route. To face Italian aggression from Libya, France built the Mareth ("Little Maginot") Line of pillboxes and sunken cement forts in the hills at the eastern border. In hostile hands these fortifications would not be an impossible obstacle to the Allies. The Germans and Italians dismantled many of the fortifications after the French armistice in 1940; and the guns on the Mareth Line are set to point east...
...went by Clipper the long way round—across the Atlantic and up through Russia's threatened backdoor. Next winter he hopes to come out again through Turkestan and Siberia. By then the outcome of the whole war may well have been decided on the steppes—and Graebner will have played a vital part in keeping its story in TIME clear and knowing and authentic...
...bombers had been promised China. Desperately the Chinese argued: for four years the Japanese had raked Chinese civilians with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...
Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...