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Japan flinched last week under the second U.S. raid on Paramoshiri in the Kuril Islands, 1,500 mi. from Tokyo...
...westernmost Aleutians are within 775 miles of the Japanese Kuril Islands...
...islands, the resourcefulness of the anti-Japanese forces would be able to exert full pressure. All the means whereby Japan marched south could be employed here for another march south, but against Tokyo." Expert Kiralfy sees the invasion of Hokkaido taking place not only from Sakhalin, but via the Kuril Islands, which continue the Aleutian chain. "American carrier planes and bombing squadrons based upon Kamchatka could participate in a move that would serve a double purpose. The seizure of the Kuriles would completely open the way for United Nations forces to flow into Manchuria and Karafuto. They would endanger...
...supply routes of the world were athrong with ships, men and supplies : around the world's fat waist in the Indian Ocean and the south Pacific; around its chest in the Atlantic and north Pacific; around its neck above the Arctic Circle off Norway, in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands. The interior lines were jammed: jammed with soldiers moving up on German and Russian railroads and highways, jammed with little men slipping down the south China Sea and through the southern straits to the Indies and east toward India...
...American Indians, happy Dr. Hrdlicka started for home last week. Exactly how the original Indians reached the shores of Alaska he did not know. But he was willing to bet that, after making the arduous journey to the Siberian coast, they traveled to what are now the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands, thence to the Aleutian bridge and North America...