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...World War I the Serbs gained a nine-month breather because German and Austrian troops were afraid to attack lest they be swamped by the typhus epidemic in Serbia. Russia was the highest loser, with 10,000,000 cases, of which 2,000,000 were fatal. With the same fear and figures in mind, the German Army was not sure last week which it feared most, the Russian before or the louse behind...
Airline radio beams were also cut off, lest Japanese planes follow them to airports or Army fields. In Seattle the Army Air Forces allowed United Air Lines to use its beam for ten minutes, long enough to get out of town with Fiorello LaGuardia. A few stations in the coast area were used by the Army for 15 to 45-second flashes. But at week's end uninterrupted daily broadcasting was restored to most stations -subject to quelling on five minutes' notice...
Last week thunderheads were gathering all over Tommy Hart's Orient. U.S. Marines were ordered to abandon Shanghai, other Chinese stations-lest they be massacred when war came (see p. 29). Australian troops swarmed into Singapore and Canadian troops into Hong Kong in preparation for new Japanese aggression. And at bases from Sydney to Manila, British, Dutch and U.S. ships prepared for action. Already U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had trumpeted: "The hour of decision is here." Tommy Hart was the man for that hour...
...Wild Bill") Donovan was appointed Coordinator of Information last July, he made it clear at once that his would be no trifling job. So sweeping were the Colonel's plans reputed to be that the intelligence services of the Army, Navy, FBI and State Department took unnecessary alarm lest the Donovan digests of information for the President supplant their...
...packed Berlin's Sport-palast, the few dozen handpicked disabled veterans who sat close to the podium where Hitler spoke-all knew that this war had already taken a terrible toll in lives and hardship. He had to say it because he himself was full of anxiety lest British and U.S. aid make the war drag even more...