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...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
Last night radios sounded eulogy and elegy. Men said all that they could say: we have suffered a terrible loss. The soldier in Paris said he was going back into the lines with the heaviest heart of his war. Doomed men in Berlin snickered at the passing of the warmonger. Around us were voices that choked with incredulity. But this is no time for despair...
...York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
...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...
...TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some 60,000,000 francs-about five times the average), longest (3¼ hours), heaviest cast (3,000) and most unexceptionable film the smooth French have ever turned...