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...Cecil B. De Mille has great respect for fact. But he is a born romancer, a highly experienced showman, and old-fashioned in both fields. His talents, as well as his limitations, conspire to turn a saga of simple heroism into a typical Hollywood entertainment feature. But they also hamper this picture as simple entertainment...
Said the Admiral: the Japanese advance into Manipur 1) had not dislocated the Allied strategy schedule in Burma-India, 2) had not delayed Stilwell, probably helped him, 3) did not hamper air supply to the Raiders...
This activity is certain to hamper postwar German attempts to recapture Latin American drug markets. But last week Sterling's stocky, blue-eyed. 46-year-old President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer...
...Reserves? The German Command is frantically trying to build up a new, real reserve. Lack of time, lack of manpower hamper this effort. Adolf Hitler confessed in his New Year message that he had to deprive his Russian front of reinforcements and send them to other "positions that are absolutely essential for the defense of Europe...
...Allies at Ypres in 1915 were taken by surprise. Ignorant civilians might still be panicked by it. But soldiers and civilians who have masks and know what to do are relatively safe. (The Japs at Tarawa were well equipped with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister gases (mustard and Lewisite) cling to solid surfaces for days or weeks. To an advancing army...