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...that until Hitler was sure of them, he preferred to undertake no new adventure in the Balkans. He could scarcely afford to attack Greece from Bulgaria alone-through what the Yugoslavs could make a deathtrap, the Struma River Valley. He would have to be sure first of the Yugoslav flank; he would like to have Yugoslavia's broader, safer Vardar Valley...
Therefore, unless the British were prepared to participate generously in a Turkish effort, the greatest hope the Greeks could have-a Turkish stroke at the German flank in Bulgaria-was not probable...
Last week the U. S. economy was still far from armed. But it was far enough along for a fitting. A few plates and greaves fitted comfortably. Vast sections of the leviathan's flank were still naked, quivering freely. Here and there a real squeeze was felt, a gusset threatened to break. Items...
...Philippines' danger is that the islands are a threat to Japan's flank if she moves on The Netherlands Indies. To prepare for such a move, the Japanese may well make a sudden assault on the islands. The archipelago's first line of defense would be Admiral Thomas Charles Hart's thin Asiatic Fleet (two cruisers, 13 destroyers, 12 submarines, as of June 1940). In a prolonged attack the Japanese would also have to meet the full might of the Pacific Fleet, now based on Honolulu. But what worries Filipinos is the problem of immediate defense...
British convoy ships had been able to cut total losses for the week ending Dec. 23 to 43,300 tons (worst week, Oct. 14-21: 146,528 tons). But the Admiralty had few ships to spare for countering the expanding eastern flank of the counter-blockade. Its Home Fleet was still chained to British Isles bases by invasion threats (see p. 24). Its Mediterranean Fleet was busy choking off supplies intended for Italy's armies in Libya and Albania...