Word: bismarckers
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...Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril," said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped down on a warship-escorted convoy off New Guinea and sank it to the last ship...
Cavalry. Fortnight ago MacArthur sent burly Major General Innis Palmer Swift and his 1st Cavalry Division into a surprise attack on Los Negros, in the center of the Bismarck Sea. Last week "Bull" Swift was able to sit down on Los Negros with a bottle of Japanese lemon pop in his big hand and tell how the job was done...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
...Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal...
...oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...