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With hunger the Axis has managed to accomplish what it could do with no other weapon-to break the stubborn spirit of the Greek people. Hate no longer snaps from the eyes of famished Greeks; there is no room for hate in lives that are one long, hopeless search for food. The Greek Government has begged for food from the Turks. Said a Greek official: "We are not asking for food that Turks would eat, but for food they refuse...
...13th day of Wake's hopeless, gallant fight. For the first time since the Japanese had struck on the morning of Dec. 8, the bright, pitiless Pacific sky was dulled. Over that tiny speck of sand on the 167th meridian east of Greenwich the clouds hung mercifully low. Those Marines of the original 378 who were still on their feet worked with tight-lipped earnestness against the next attack...
Tipoff: it has been predicted that, bad as Army & Navy supply has been, OPM is so much more hopeless that the gambit now is to forget OPM, strengthen the services with business talent. The board that he heads must now attack the job of leading some 50% of U.S. industry...
...Douglas MacArthur might still win. His position was desperate. It was likely to get worse. But it was not yet hopeless...
...wide open sky on a sandspit in midsea, just as it was back home, where stores bustled, and parti-colored lights blinked from the trees in a million windows. But for the Marines on Wake Is land it was the week when they fought and died in their last, hopeless stand...