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Most controversial selection of the issue is "Ceylon: Key to Victory," by R. W. Komer '42. Had it been printed two months ago, this article might well have rated as one of the best in Guardian history, but the Battles of Midway and the Coral Sea have robbed it of most of its significance. The author's thesis, that Japan will strike next at India, is answered by implication in another part of the issue, Dr. Reischauer's short note entitled "Japanese Strategy." Recent developments have indicated that Dr. Reischauer is closer to the truth, but Komer's logistic reasoning...
...even the 8% it was still possible to import did not sound dependable: 6% came from Ceylon—a long haul through Jap-infested waters—and the other 2% from Africa and Latin America...
...loss of the Dutch East Indies and the threat to Ceylon have forced the U.S. to cross more than 100,000 tons off its list of hoped-for raw rubber...
...when the trucks are U.S. Army trucks. They go aboard like planes or tanks-ready for use in any emergency. One reason is obvious: Suppose a shipment of CKDs to Rangoon, where there were adequate assembly facilities, had to be diverted after Rangoon's fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army...
...releases consist typically of bulletins on rice culture, assembly debates, the comings & goings of maharajahs from the Viceroy's palace. Troubling also are the country's vast distances, with prospects of a Jap attack that might come anywhere or everywhere on a 1,500-mile front from Ceylon to Calcutta...