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...manpower ratio was approximately constant: Douglas MacArthur's 20,000 men against the Jap's 150,000-200,000. The technique was approximately the same: a lull, then a fierce, full-strength Japanese attack against some point on one of the smallest fronts of World War II. The outcome was hearteningly familiar: after three days of intensive attack last week, the Jap retired to catch his breath, to count his heavy casualties, to scheme up an-(continued on p. 26) other go at Bataan Peninsula's defenders...
...forts from concealed positions across the Bay, was usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent airfield less than 300 miles from Bataan...
...banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...
...Libya there appeared to be a lull, as the British communique said that patrols fanning out from their positions west and south of Tobruk had failed to make contact with any "important bodies" of the Axis troops...
...Dewey, Hutchin's, Inc.," a fine comparison of the methods of the classical and modern educational radicals. Written with sympathy and understanding, this essay combines clear evaluation with a convincing case for cooperation between these two theoretically opposed schools. Myron Kaufmann '43, has contributed an excellent piece on the "Lull in Liberalism." Pointing out the depression in the liberal ideology due to the united front for war, this member of the Crimson and Guardian boards calls upon liberal leadership to recognize that the unity so essential now, is at best a union of opposites against a common enemy...