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This week Shimada had to make a new set of plans to stave off the Americans, who certainly intend to plow into his inner defenses. Except for his German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing...
...dissenters made futile noises. Then the House of Commons voted a new Mutual Aid Bill, Canadian counterpart of U.S. Lend-Lease. In the coming fiscal year, the Dominion will spend $800,000,000 in Canada to provide material assistance to her Allies...
Wrote Mai-mai Sze, artist daughter of Alfred Sao-ke Sze, former Ambassador to the U.S., in the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: "Any child in Russia, Europe, or England, might do the counterpart. . . . A war child of the West would also know, as instinctively as the Chinese child, that a black line drawn along the hollow of the cheek is enough to describe hunger, and that people with empty stomachs seldom stand...
Konev used his tanks both to fight and to transport. His favorite tank is the adaptable T-34, with its broad treads, high belly clearance, a reinforced axle. Its German counterpart, Mark V, or Panther, often bogs down in the mud and breaks its axle. The Red tanks carry Tommy gun crews, equipment and fuel barrels strapped to the side. They also tow caravans of mud sledges, loaded high with food and ammunition...
Just at the moment when Russia needed a Pole to head its Polish counterpart of the Committee for German Liberation, Novelist Wasilewska turned up in Moscow after reportedly tramping hundreds of miles from Poland to join the Red Army, in which she is a colonel...