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Convoy Through. Having lost all of their heavy equipment in Greece and much in Libya, the Middle Eastern British were last week mechanically almost naked. Apparently it was decided in Brit ain to send out new tanks and guns, and that the matter was so urgent that the supplies should not go around Africa but should risk the Mediterranean. The last time the British tried that, the aircraft carrier Illustrious was knocked out and the light cruiser Southampton sunk...
...greatest battle of World War II may still be fought on English soil. If it is, one of many reasons that Hitler may be beaten will be the new and growing British People's Army opposing him: Brit ain's Home Guard. And one of the many obscure heroes responsible for Hitler's defeat will be the most urgent of Britain's advocates for a People's Army: Thomas H. Wintringham...
From 78,000 tons in the war's first week to 5,000 in the fourth (last) week dropped the, tonnage of Allied shipping sunk by German U-boats. So elated were the Brit ish that they announced: "They [U-boats] have found the pace too hot for them and have retreated from much-used shipping channels and are now forced to operate out in the open sea where the 'catch' is bound to be a much smaller one." The British pointed with pride to their convoy system, revealed that a flotilla of 15 freighters had arrived...
...Selangor, 3,160 square miles of Brit ish protectorate on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, all important problems of State are settled by a British Resident...
Ingersoll and Eric Hodgins, became respectively the publishers of TIME and FORTUNE; Roy E. Larsen became publisher of LIFE. For himself Luce still cherishes, as he and Brit Hadden did from the beginning, no title or occupation more than that of Editor of TIME...