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...explain the sudden failure of good, experienced airmen. Perhaps Douglas MacArthur could get at the cause, eradicate it. Meanwhile, short of planes, short of men, short of everything but the will for an offensive, he could go back to an old, sad problem: not how to go after the Jap but how to stop...
...like her, Russians could plainly see last week. The gallant promises from Comrade Stalin himself were being drowned out in the clatter of German armies moving forward, over a carpet of dead Russians, to the oil of the Caucasus (see p. 21). From the east came the rumble of Jap armies massing to stab Siberia (see p. 21). Stormoviks of the Red Air Force smashed at tanks worming their way through the steppes of the Don. They splashed the skies with smoke, fighting through Messerschmitts toward airfields skulking just behind advance lines on smooth terrain. The Russians were not beaten...
...poked at tobacco plants in his spare-time garden plot, wondered if he would be lucky in a new national lottery in which each worker was asked to spend 10% of his salary. Tousle-haired children in costume played in the parks. A baboon escaped from the Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia, tank soldiers, "intellectuals...
...fear had materialized. Last week Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare admitted that economic contact had been established between Germany and Japan. Small quantities of rubber had reached the Reich from Jap-controlled rubber lands; since Dec. 8 several shipments of German machine tools had left Europe for Japan...
Port Moresby's 71 air raids have been singularly ineffective. Outside of the Air Corps not one American has been killed or wounded by Jap bombers or strafers-in fact, the only non-Air Corps grave in the American section of the military cemetery is that of a soldier killed in a truck accident. There have been some close calls. On two occasions slit trenches containing American anti-aircraft troops have had direct hits, but the bombs happened to fall in a non-inhabited part of the V-shaped trench...