Word: divertible
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...used the most advanced bases open to them. If those bases were utilized, U.S. bombers could, and no doubt would, hit at deeper, more vital sources of Jap power. The Japanese could see that, despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen Lattimore,* last week gave this blunt promise to Japan: "There will be a second front, not only in Europe but also...
...week when the news from Guadalcanal was bad (see above) criticism could easily obscure one fact which in the end would count for more than the possession or loss of the lower Solomons. The fact: the U.S. invasion had compelled the Japanese to divert great forces of warships, planes and men to a campaign which the Japanese neither planned nor wanted. The Navy had forced a U.S. plan upon the Japanese. When the enemy plans were thus disrupted, the Navy knew that the Japs were concentrating great forces in the north; there was reason to believe that they were then...
...elected to represent them, which many felt represented them no longer. For a general election, there was no complete register of voters: voters had been called up, industrially shifted and concentrated, evacuated, blitzed out of old addresses. Most new voters had never been registered at all. An election would divert precious energy from the war effort, create bitterness which might destroy national unity. It would not solve Britain's standing political dilemma, succinctly expressed by the sober weekly Economist...
...about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate manner that is a pleasant change from the frantic modern comedies which infest our stage. The handsome set and the almost perfect cast are bathed in the romantic golden glow of The Good Old Days. "The Damask Check" intends to divert it and it succeeds admirably...
Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...