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...British decision to outlaw the Indian National Congress [TIME, Aug. 17] at a time when no overt act of disobedience had taken place ... is regarded by many as justified. . . . Yet even those who accept this view know in their hearts that there could be no graver disaster to the cause of freedom than what has happened in India and no folly more wicked than the folly which seeks to save India from her enemies through a policy of terrorization endorsed by her friends...
...decisions which would answer Molotov, the world had to wait. But Churchill's sudden visit to the U.S., Molotov's grave words and the graver threat to Russia (see p. 21), all the crowding crises of last week hammered home a fact so simple that it was hard to grasp. In World War II there are no separate fronts. There are only sectors of one world-belting front. Mr. Molotov's cry for a fresh sector in Europe had to be balanced against cries from Chungking (see p. 25); against the threat looming from the Aleutians...
...still ringed some 30 miles away by Nazi guns. Capture of Leningrad would 1) isolate the Kronstadt naval base, opening the Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
...their light naval units, the Allies took a beating off Java. The Dutch had started the war with five cruisers: the loss was a severe blow to total cruiser strength in the Indies. For his losses, the Jap got his landings on Java (see p. 16). For the Allies, graver than their total loss in ships was the immediate threat to their last naval base in the Indies...
...mystery to everyone, including the highly-paid Washington correspondents whose favorite pastime has always been to dig up some information about "mysterious" goings-on in the Capitol. No sound reason seems to exist for any further delay; it would mean only a more pressing threat of inflation and a graver danger to the high standard of living which has for so long been this country's pride...