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...troops in Australia. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that air and ground forces were there "in considerable numbers." Difficult terrain, great sea distances, an aroused army and population-all these made Australia a tough target for the Japs. Nevertheless, one consideration could drive them to hazard invasion now: the conviction that, unless Australia is conquered or isolated, it will become a United Nations base for air, naval and land offensives to recapture the southwest Pacific...
...Piloting now my plane, I feel no love; but if this evening something is revealed to me, it will be because I shall have carried my heavy stones towards the building of the invisible structure. I am preparing a celebration. . . . There is nothing that I may expect of the hazard of war except this slow apprenticeship. Like grammar, it will repay me later...
Singapore's defenders knew the stakes. If they should fail all United Nations bases from Suez to Pearl Harbor would be in hazard. Japan's Malayan forces would be free to attack Java, Burma, perhaps Australia. With evacuation almost impossible, it would deal a heavy blow in manpower. Some 60,000 British troops were on the island. And it would give Japan a free passage to the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. Knowing these things Singapore's defenders fought bravely and well, but bravery was not enough...
...much easier to reach Newell now than at anytime. You merely take the shortest route and venture across the the Charles, which is shorter in yardage, but it is questionable whether the impromptu hockey game which rage over its frozen surface are less of a hazard to navigation than the traffic over the Andreson bridge...
...gasoline. Patients were sprayed with mixtures of Hydrosulphosol and water every 20 or 30 minutes until a tough "eschar," or "scab" was built up. The eschar is flexible, leaves room for motion, reduces scars to a minimum. Hydrosulphosol, said Dr. Mellon, not only relieves pain, but prevents infection, great hazard in burn cases...