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...Axis is in position to squeeze both Russia and the treasure of Britain's Empire, India, from east and west. But last week Germany was at work on Russia's western flank and Japan was at work on India's eastern flank. Japan was not yet attacking Russia's eastern flank, Siberia; Germany was not yet attacking India's western flank, the Middle East. But both were apparently preparing exactly those attacks...
...after sea lanes. It was for them, and for the world power that they could give him, that he reached when his forces closed on Singapore; when he drove at the East Indies' heart and center through Macassar Strait; when, last week, on the easternmost flank of the Indian Archipelago, he squatted in the Bismarcks, the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea...
Douglas MacArthur had chosen his position well. Only his left flank, on the sea south of the blackened ruins of Olongapo naval station, was exposed. The right lay on Manila Bay, and the guns of Corregidor still kept the bay clear of heavy Jap forces...
...work with. He did the obvious thing. At many points along the coast he put down landing parties to work their way across the coastal flats into the hills behind the U.S. main line of resistance. But the Jap also swarmed along the cliffs on MacArthur's left flank, with bombs and shells and rifle fire forced the U.S.-Philippine defenders to give ground...
...this juncture MacArthur chose to act on the opposite side of the peninsula. He concentrated his 155-mm. artillery on his mountainous right flank, slaughtering the massed Japs by hundreds, made an oldfashioned, cold-steel bayonet attack which sent the shattered Japs reeling back abandoning much equipment. The pressure on MacArthur's left promptly relaxed. On his 62nd birthday this week Douglas MacArthur was still chipper, still bucking up, his men by visits to his fronts. He said: "The enemy may hold the bottle, but I hold the cork...