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...Tactical necessity may compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
...Island is an important intermediary base for planes en route between Japanese factories and the South Seas. Yet it was practically defenseless: the Japs had stripped interior bases to concentrate defense strength on the outer rim of their sprawling empire. The presence of long-range bombers in China may compel the Japs to reallocate some of their defensive strength to the interior. But, to be telling, bombing raids must be sustained, and in greater force than the Allies have so far been able to assemble and supply in blockaded China...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Wis., declared today that enactment of the Ruml Plan canceling a year's taxes will compel Congress to raise taxes later ths year for millions of people in the middle and lower income groups...
...hand was: 1) the worst example yet of what failure to coordinate political aims and understandings with war aims could bring about; 2) an object lesson in the lengths to which the U.S.S.R. could go to compel understanding on its own terms; 3) a preview of postwar confusions. Now, as never before, the time was ripe for a personal meeting sometime soon between Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt...
...local-itis. Symptoms of this disease appeared in Alaska and the Aleutians (see p. 26), but the most virulent manifestations occurred in the Southwest Pacific area commanded by General Douglas Mac-Arthur. In conjunction with subordinate commanders and Australian politicians, he waged a public campaign, through the press, to compel a major and immediate change in U.S. strategy. ^ General MacArthur said from Australia: "The range of our air force over surrounding waters marks the stretch of no man's sea which is the measure of our safety. If we lose the air, naval forces cannot save us. ... The Allied...