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...nearly one-seventh of the earth's circumference: down 400 miles of treacherous Malay coastline to the forbidding hinge at Singapore, then 3,000 miles out into the southeast until it reached the barbarous fringes of the Netherlands domain. The Japanese generals and admirals might even decide to by-pass Singapore for the time being, to take a fling directly at the Indies. If it succeeded, Japan would be safe; if it failed, Japan was through. It would be as desperate a gamble as the Spanish Armada, and just as pregnant with destiny...
...Donovan went next, is the key to the Mediterranean. And the key to Gibraltar is Spain. England and Germany are fighting for the seduction of Spain; England with food for the immediate present, Germany with promises of future prosperity and aggrandizement. But if Germany loses this skirmish, she may by-pass Spain and reach for the coast of West Africa, where she would be in a position to cut the Cape-route lifeline and draw the cord of strangulation tighter about Britain's neck...
...Luzon is not only the Philippines' capital, but their only Navy Yard (at Cavite), their only naval repair station (Olongapo), most of their fortifications and military airdromes. So long as Manila is in U. S. hands, no Japanese drive to the south could safely by-pass the islands. Hence the U. S. Army has centred its defenses about Manila. Here the defenders of the Philippines would make their last stand against an invasion. Most officers think they could hold on until help came from Honolulu...
...Lawrence, slow-moving through most of its mighty length, falls 92 feet in 48 miles. It called for ten miles of canals and three great locks around these rapids, for navigation improvements through Lake St. Francis and the Soulanges Rapids farther downriver, for dams, locks and canals to by-pass the treacherous Lachine Rapids, where the river falls 24 feet in five miles. It called for the joint expenditure by the U. S. and Canada of $550,000,000 (opponents said $1,350,000,000), for 5,000,000 installed horsepower of electricity, for the development of the greatest hydroelectric...
...Turkey has not reacted to other Axis grabs in the Balkans, and anyhow the very word "Dardanelles" was taboo in the Axis press last week. There was the possibility that the Axis might by-pass the Dardanelles by way of the Dodecanese Islands and Syria in its drive to the East...