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...Sulzberger, who had investigated the problem in Moscow, reported from London the first coherent account of the Sinkiang situation. He also reported that Sinkiang is the epicenter of a political earthquake which may change the power geography of Asia. For Sinkiang is the keystone of the Eurasian heartland. It has common frontiers with Russian Turkestan, Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, British-dominated Tibet, China and China's Communist area around Yenan...
...Europe. Okinawa, four times the size of Guam, promises to be a fine base, even better than preliminary U.S. appraisals indicated. Within six months the Philippines should be in shape to take all the ground forces which can be redeployed in that time for the invasion of the Jap heartland...
...divisions are constantly being recruited. The problem is to guess when and where the invasion of the home islands is coming. If the Jap generals guess wrong, as they have so often done, there will be no time to shift dispositions. No Substitute. The invasion of the Jap heartland is definitely around the bend; Allied war planners in Washington know that there is no substitute for attack. No doubt Japan can be weakened further by naval blockade and stepped-up air bombardment, and U.S. air and Navy men who want to test theory on the proving ground of war will...
...western Pacific U.S. forces stormed into the key Ryukyu Islands, less than 400 miles from Japan's heartland, against opposition which was, at least in the beginning, fantastically light. Ice-calm Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz relaxed his studied reserve enough to admit: "Our final decisive victory is assured...
...closed in on Japan with a rapidity which, only a year ago, seemed inconceivable. Last week, as a great fleet of B-29s made the heaviest demolition attack on the Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed...