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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This did not mean that the Battle of the Pacific had magically become a pushover. The Jap was still strong among the islands of his inner barrier. He still had naval and air power which would have to be beaten down before victory. Men would die by the thousands before American soldiers and marines set foot on the home islands of Japan. What it did mean was that the Battle of the Pacific no longer seemed the heartbreaking, long, near-impossible fight it was a year...
...Harold Ickes' much-mooted Government-owned pipeline across Arabia (TIME, Feb. 14 et seq.) will probably die aborning...
...vecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. The Hazlitts were enchanted with its lyrical mixture of democracy and agriculture. Father Hazlitt, a struggling Unitarian minister, decided to emigrate. Soon Parson Hazlitt established Boston's first Unitarian church. But ill-health and parish problems (he would rather "die in a ditch," he said, than kowtow to his congregation) drove Parson Hazlitt back to Britain. Wrote the future author of Winterslow, then aged eight: "I shall never forget that we came to America. ... I think for my part that it would have been a great deal better if the white...
...namely the Jap citizens. We say, if they step out of the line of faithfulness to our country, punish them severely. But don't touch one of them just because he has Japanese blood. They are American citizens. We are fighting for all American citizens, and when we die for them we don't stop to ask what kind of blood they have. We are fighting for the sacred rights of man; we don't want them toyed with behind our backs...
From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...