Word: divertible
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...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...
...bound to a good-neighbor policy for better or worse, there are two loser's choices: 1) divert more shipping to Central America-not a very likely possibility in view of Army needs; 2) try to work out some system, such as Britain last week was planning to do for her Caribbean colonies (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, etc.). The British scheme includes buying up colonial products just as the U.S. is now buying Brazilian coffee and Peruvian cotton, and let the Caribbean countries use the cash for made-work projects such as road building and swamp clearance. Such a subsidy...
...Burma against the fear that the Allies might strike too soon. It looked last week as though the Chinese had argued one side of their case better than the other. General Wavell's cautiously worded communiqué made the British advance appear to be either an attempt to divert Japan from attacking southern China or a bid for hop-off positions for a future offensive, rather than a broadly conceived campaign to reconquer Burma...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco struck a blow last week for Germany. By word and action, as surely as if he had ordered his troops to fire, he compelled the Allies to divert men, equipment and energy from Tunisia (see col. 3) and spend them upon preparations which might have been deferred if Spain were safely neutral...
...should be followed with regard to Darlan. This is an example of Machiavellian politics, and Washington must take care that it does not backfire. Darlan is valuable to the Allies because he controls the French Navy and is the official representative of Vichy France in Africa. If he should divert the prestige given him by the Allies into channels where it might gain him the support of the French people, he could become dangerous. Let him haul the Allied bandwagon, but keep a firm check on the reins...