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...seven consecutive days before General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor, the War Department's Philippine communiqués had a pleasant, unchanging sameness. U.S. scouting units continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...
Anyone who thinks his country might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study...
...Navy and its air service can harass Japanese shipping and outposts by surface, submarine and aircraft-carrier raids, constantly striking and then retiring to the main U.S. base in Pearl Harbor. Such raids cannot win the war. They cannot even protect U.S. shipping routes to the Allied forces in Australia and the Middle East, or supply lines to Russia, India and China...
...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...
...what a Sam Browne belt will do for a tubby physique, are flocking into civilian defense organizations so they can wear uniforms themselves. But oh, how wrong they are! The fair sex just don't seem to have been built for khaki. Those severe, blue-grey creations which would harass Mainbocher or Schiaparclli to an early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where they most oughtn't to be. Even the new be-bustled bathing suit doesn't render a beautiful lady as unattractive as one of those proto-masculine outfits which leaves her about...