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While the penetration of Tonkin was first of all a movement against South China, it was also the first move in consolidation of the flanks preceding an attack on Singapore. Since Thailand last week showed itself in complete sympathy with the Japanese by sending over French Indo-China a lone "token" bomber, and since there is a good railroad from Haiphong to strategic Saigon to the south, this single stroke practically sewed up the western flank. The eastern flank, comprising the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, was also partially blanketed-by the three-way pact. The pact was largely directed...
...Axis controlled the extremities of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable naval bases in the Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Balkans, Britain would be hard...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek never faltered. The "Gissimo" was determined to hang on till the end. He still has enough ammunition left for another year of fighting; the morale of his Army is unimpaired. But he knew and China knew that with the Japanese about to attack on his flank from Tonkin, now, if ever, was the time to listen to Japanese overtures for peace...
...great strategic asset and $7,200,000 is not much more than the cost of a modern destroyer. Lying close to the great-circle course from northern Asiatic ports to the U. S., Alaska is a base from which U. S. submarines and aircraft can operate against the flank of any invader...
...Exposed Flank. Most serious obstacle to any all-out move by Japan is the exposure of her northern flank to an attack by Soviet Russia. Russia has tested this flank several times since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese...