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...Retailer, therefore, bears the brunt of the whole price-control program. With few exceptions, U.S. retailers were having the horrors last week. Worst blow was that OPA had denied their plea for a "rollback" of ceiling dates that would recognize the lag between rising wholesale and retail prices. Since retail prices in recent months have been rising more sharply than wholesale prices, the lag between them was smaller in March than it had been earlier (when wholesale prices were rising very fast). But retailers maintained that their price level was still some 10% behind their suppliers...
...Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped Toungoo to the west, then wheeled at right angles, took the airport north of the town and cut off the Chinese from the British. Surrounded on three sides, the Chinese fought for 60 desperate hours without rest. Then reinforcements arrived and they broke through to begin a retirement. According...
...there's no point of planning the military prospectus of the war without Russia. We've got to work with them, understand their problems, and fit them into our scheme of the future as best we can. This is no mariage de convenance. Right now they're bearing the brunt of the war, and when the peace comes around they, quite justifiably, are going to be demanding their place...
Last year London staved off blitzes and worried. Last week it breathed easily and all too complacently while Russia bore the brunt of Hitler's attack. Last year London worried over Winston Churchill's habit of walking around during raids, listened to Parliament jump from one major war issue to another. Last week London watched Winston Churchill and 75,000 other people whisk off to Wembley for the year's biggest football match (England downed Scotland 2-to-0), winced as the House of Commons wrangled testily over whether or not R.A.F. officers should smoke pipes...
...each time through two weaknesses of his foes: 1) those who bore the brunt of his attack had been forced or persuaded to quit; 2) those who stood farther away had hoped someone else would win their war for them. Last week Hitler was still gambling on those weaknesses, and in three capitals men were tempted again to yield to them. Unless they sternly put down their weaknesses, Adolf Hitler had a good chance of winning again...