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...junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...
...Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
...anti-Axis Vox Populi has backing in high places. The Royal Family is popularly supposed to have looked with misgivings on the Axis. As the Axis became more unpopular, the Throne gained in popularity until there became noticeable a resurgence of monarchist feeling in Italy. When "Viva Il Duce" is now painted on the walls, the words "Viva Il Re!" are more than likely to be written beside...
...mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet. Few Indian leaders, and certainly not M. K. Gandhi, would care to exchange their British masters for Joseph Stalin...
Since World War I, tacticians have become increasingly conscious of the Axiom. Theme of every drill manual, every military article has been to cut casualties. French training doctrine admonishes not to attack unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...