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...last week the course of Foreign Minister Matsuoka-a course of adventuresome diplomacy combined with military caution-had put Japan into one of the worst dilemmas of her history. Japan had to decide, and quickly, whose sun was setting on the horizon of world dominion...
First Day. He knew that the British were mounting an attack. Though the British had used great caution, Axis reconnaissance had for seven days spotted perhaps two divisions of Indian infantry, scattered thinly and on foot, making its blistering way toward the frontier from Matrúh, 150 miles inside Egypt. General Rommel knew that so much infantry does not move so far so fast in the face of such hardships unless a real attack is contemplated...
During the opening stages of the war, there seemed to be no realization at Harvard that a conflict was actually taking place. In October, the first indication of interest was the appearance of an editorial in the Crimson warning undergraduates to use nothing but the most extreme caution in "expression of personal opinion in the present crisis." It was inadvisable, said the editors, that any member of the University "separate-from the position of complete neutrality, as regards public utterances, which President Wilson has proclaimed desirable." Obviously, neutrality meant something then...
Action. The British capital ships-Warspite (30,600 tons, 15-inchers), Valiant (sister) and Barham (35,100 tons, 15-inchers)-worked along with caution. Destroyers screened them. All crews were at battle stations: spotters crouching behind cold searchlights, signalers at smaller lights, gun crews working with dims, secondary TIME, April 7, 1941 batteries all set with star shells. Control officers strained their hungry eyes...
...Months of Caution. On the morning of Dec. 7,1940, the military correspondent of a German newspaper wrote: "Neither of the parties can carry out a surprise attack in the western desert because of natural obstacles in the desert and because preparation of mechanized forces for a big offensive cannot be concealed." Two mornings later Sir Archibald Wavell called twelve crack war correspondents into his Cairo office and calmly announced: "Gentlemen, this morning at dawn our troops opened attack against Italian positions at Sidi Barrani." Then his grim mouth relaxed into a smile as he added: "It would be interesting...