Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will fight for freedom of the seas, for "if the Axis powers fail to gain control of the seas they are certainly defeated." > Nazi occupation of Iceland, Greenland, the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores would "endanger the freedom of the Atlantic and our own American physical safety." > The U.S. will not wait until the Western Hemisphere is actually invaded to strike back: "We in the Americas will decide for ourselves whether and when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened...
...strategy which this doctrine calls for is that the Nazis must be driven from the seas, as well as denied possession of land bases with seapower implications -e.g., Dakar, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, etc. An obvious corollary is that when the U.S. begins to swing its military heft, the first swinging will be done by the Navy and air arms. As long as the Commander in Chief holds to his fundamental doctrine and does not go beyond it (for example, into a continental land offensive) the U.S. Army's role will be subsidiary...
...invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...
...PERENNIAL BOARDER - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Norton ($2). Olive Beadle, shot in Ye Olde Whale caravansary on Cape Cod, gives Asey Mayo a rare bit of homespun detecting to do. Asey's grammar gets worse as his sleuthing gets better...