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...Japanese rush into Manipur, India's easternmost state, had apparently reached its peak, was receding before British attack. In North Burma General Joseph W. Stilwell's columns pushed slowly along the Ledo Road toward China. Airborne British and Indian Raiders, recently reinforced, roamed through the Japanese rear, slashing and wrecking...
...Beside him sits a little man with dull, lustful eyes, abnormally high cheekbones, and an enormous shock of brown hair. Legally he is a Russian but the face is oriental. He is a Mongol of the easternmost end of Asia...
...Wilkinson took over amphibious operations in the Solomons, he relieved Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. "Terrible" Turner, who carried out the landings on Guadalcanal, the Russells and New Georgia, would be expected to pop up again suddenly and violently, probably somewhere along the flank of the Jap's easternmost defenses...
Half a million men surged all week over rainswept fields around Orel. This week the Berlin radio spoke guardedly of fighting "in the southwestern part of the town." If true, this meant the Russians were finally forcing them to abandon their easternmost strong point in the central front. To their own people, the Germans glibly explained the dogged Russian advance in terms of the Wehrmacht's policy of "elastic defense...
Fighting men in the Pacific had some thing new and gay to talk about last week - fabulous Sikaiana, the terrestrial paradise in the tiny, isolated Stewart Islands group north of the easternmost Solomons, where the South Seas really live up to their literary tradition and the native girls really look like Dorothy Lamour...