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Meanwhile the inscrutable foe sat in the golden seat. The offensive was still in his hand. He gave a fine exhibition of hiding it by much ado over a wide area. His planes roared as far east as the new U.S. base on New Caledonia, were routed by fighters. His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports. U.S. and Australian pilots whacked right back, destroying the Jap's planes wholesale, as many as 30 at one clip...
Scoop in New Caledonia. Meanwhile the United Nations, sure that if they could hold on to New Guinea's foothold they would have a jump-off place against the Jap, forestalled him in another south Pacific area. Washington announced that U.S. troops had landed in New Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel...
...last week recognized the Free French administrative control of French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons. This spoke louder than the recent recognition of the Free French in New Caledonia. The U.S. was obviously hearing the eloquence of General Charles de Gaulle. In London he sharply reminded the Allies that, while Hitler might not yet have the French Empire and Navy, Vichy's policy in neutralizing them had given Hitler a protective screen in northwest Africa and the Mediterranean. Continuing in a belligerent mood, General de Gaulle said: "Fighting France intends to go forward with her allies on the express...
Aussies used to think that they had a protecting screen in the islands which lie off Australia's northern and eastern shores: New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomons, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia. But in Japanese hands these islands could be either invasion steps toward Australia or walls between Australia and the U.S. If Australia is thoroughly walled in, the Japanese can take their time about invading it and turn against India or Russia...
...Japs actually landed the small forces necessary to deal with the Solomons' indifferent natives and few, malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...