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...Lull Before Lunge. After the first Japanese thrust there had come a lull-especially in enemy air activity which had given the British their first setback. The Jap was apparently gathering for another lunge. He was on a line roughly 300 miles above Singapore, but scattered patrols on the east coast, apparently landed from the sea, were within 175 miles. If the Philippines fell, many transports busy there might soon be available to the Japanese for reinforcing Malaya...
Most people, however, do not use shelters at all. Especially after a long lull in bombing, the subways in London are almost empty, with citizens preferring to take their chances in their own homes. Among the unique shelters used by Londoners are the arches of the railway viaducts, under which they ran instinctively because "their fathers used them to escape Zeppelin attack...
...epic speech, no solemn act of President Roosevelt made the week memorable in history books. But the lull was not a rest. In Hyde Park, where at week's end the President applied himself to the private task of settling his mother's estate, he could count a goodly number of chores which he had put behind...
...luck intervened. The U.S.S.R. decided against sovietizing northern Persia, fearing that Britain would grab the rest of the country. The British decided against grabbing the rest of the country, fearing that the U.S.S.R. would sovietize the north. For the time being, it was a standoff. Taking advantage of the lull, on Feb. 21, 1921, Colonel Reza Khan rode into Teheran at the head of 2,000 Persian Cossacks and took over...
...been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good war (see p. 12), and Winston Churchill declared...