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These remarks were as dumfounding as if a Japanese poet had suddenly expressed a profound loathing for the sight of moonrise over the Inland Sea. Some Far Eastern experts at once suspected all manner of guile behind the Japanese words. It was suggested that Japan was jockeying for a peace with Chiang Kaishek, preferably for one which would bind him to join Japan in war on the Chinese Communists...
Among the prominent alumni that will explain the business situation will be John Lord O'Brain '96, general counsel of the OPM, Frederick C. Crawford, '13 of Cleveland, President of Thompson Products, Inc., and Clarence B. Randall '12 of Chicago, vice-president of the Inland Steel Company...
...Army sites, inland from Port-of-Spain, contractors and thousands of Trinidad laborers were frantically at work last week. The defense project had reached a point where smoke clouded the hot sky over two great airfields to be-smoke from thousands of acres of timbered lands, where the jungle was being hacked and burned away. The War Department had clamped a rigid rule of secrecy upon its officers in all the bases outside the U.S., Trinidad included. But from the public, paved highways through the whole Army area, natives riding their stunted donkeys and any visiting motorist could...
Surrendering the city to avoid bombing, the small Greek garrison and most of the population moved inland to the hills to think things over. While the Italians were still trying to coax them out with ultimatums, the German occupation force of three arrived by motor launch, bowed politely out when they found the small end of the Axis in possession. Next day the Greeks capitulated finally and the Italians made sure of their prize with three infantry battalions...
...Phase One of the Battle of the Mediterranean ended last week, most eyes turned toward the east end of the inland sea for the next action (see p. 28). But the Battle of the Mediterranean involves its whole shore line, and last week's reports from France and the countries of the western Mediterranean thundered on the left...