Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become the vortex of a naval whirlpool which may easily engulf either adversary. But beyond that it is a geographic key. If the U.S. loses Guadalcanal, the Japanese can press on with relative ease, take the whole chain of islands down through the New Hebrides to New Caledonia (see map), and then have only the narrow moat of the Coral Sea between them and Australia. But if the U.S. holds Guadalcanal, and can force its way up the chain as far as Rabaul, then the Allies will have a series of bases from which to build a major offensive against...
...power has been growing in the area. Heavy bombers have begun to operate from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...
...film lasts 20 minutes. Its scope is global. The camera swings from Paris to London to the U.S., from New Caledonia to Equatorial Africa. The commentary is terse. The screen itself, in its simple documenting of events and people, clinches one irrefutable fact: No U.S. citizen need question again the will of Frenchmen to be free...
George Marshall's staff swears that the President has up to now never overruled his decisions on "purely military matters." Only on politico-military matters (the Army's move into New Caledonia; the proposal to draft 18-year-olds) must the Chief of Staff be guided by the President...
...precious time won from the Jap in the victory of the Coral Sea was running out. Soon he would strike again, and this time he might plow through to New Caledonia or to Australia's sparsely held coasts...