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...must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...
...inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed to be digging in almost defensively-with half-buried tanks as pillboxes...
...House, who has busied himself lately trying to convince the House that the time is ripe for a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany. Rankin had just told a deathly-still House: "Mr. Speaker, Wall Street and a little group of our international Jewish brethren are still attempting to harass the President . . . and the Congress of the United States into plunging us into the European war, unprepared. . . . These international bankers are so afraid that this peace movement . . . might take root . . . before they can get us into it [the war] that on yesterday they held a rally in Wall Street...
Formed in the 16th Century to harass Spanish conquerors, Les Gueux was revived last year by students of the Nazi-shuttered Universities of Delft and Leiden. With them it has become a truly underground organization, with many of its members hiding out in cellars of bomb-wrecked buildings...
Haile Selassie issued a call to action, and native bands began to harass the Italian rear. The Negus meant business. Said he: "When I enter Addis Ababa, I shall lead my victorious troops into the Capital, mounted on a white horse, just as Badoglio did. I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its place will reinstate the white marble statue of the Lion of Judah." In London, his roly-poly, good-natured Empress Waizeru Menen collected her daughters, packed her crown jewels for the big entry, climbed aboard...