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Gunboat Diplomacy. Even before hostilities ended, India had publicly begun to justify its action before the world. It had a case against the Portuguese, who ran an incompetent petty tyranny in Goa and, unlike Britain and France, stubbornly clung to a hopeless anachronism in refusing to get out of India. By claiming weakly that Goa was not a colony but an "overseas province," Portugal did indeed (as India's U.N. Delegate C. S. Jha put it) stand "against the tide of history...
Four weeks later at Midway, U.S. dive-bombers inflicted the war's first clear defeat on the Japanese, sinking four Japanese carriers. Long years of war were still to come, but thereafter the U.S. was never again to fight against hopeless odds...
Samurai v. Optimist. One of Toland's most effective devices is to flash from the misery of a hopeless battlefield to the wild unrealism of cables from Washington that demanded impossible resistance in high-flown language designed to impress world opinion. Commanders themselves could be dispiritingly callous: MacArthur, arriving safe in Australia as his troops made their last stand in Bataan, declared airily: "That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash." Too often, the difference was between the dedicated professionalism of the samurai...
...seemed an all but hopeless search. Five days earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea's coastal villages of Agats and Atsj, Mike Rockefeller's native catamaran capsized in the swelling Arafura Sea. Mike dived off to swim for help through waters infested with sharks toward a swampy shore swarming with crocodiles. After a companion who stayed with the boat was rescued, New Guinea's Dutch officials ordered a search for Michael. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a jet for $38,000, flew out to join the hunt. "I could never forgive myself," he explained, "if I didn...
Administration officials have hinted throughout the Fall that the depot system is a hopeless mess, yet have taken no action at all. Dean von Stade is supposedly in charge of solicitation in the Yard; all he would say was that the Administration will take a long look at the plan and then decide whether or not to continue...