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...picture drives home lesson No. 1 when tinny little Japanese amphibian tanks snort toward Singapore through the Malayan rice paddies which Allied generals had pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
...Admiral Keyes, "with defending Rutland when he seemed to be hunting with the hounds and running with the fox. But his services might have been of immediate value. He could have told what the Repulse and the Prince of Wales were likely to expect when they got into those [Malayan] waters-a superior fleet and an enormous air force." There was only one living Briton, he reminded the Houses, who could wear an Albert Medal, First Class, awarded him in World War I. That Briton was ex-Flight Commander Rutland...
...iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...this makes it hard for me to understand why the Japanese were able to fight their way down the Malayan Peninsula so quickly," he added...
...direct German demands. The government's part has been that of a propaganda agency, designed to persuade the French people that all steps taken by Vichy were French steps for French Freedom. But the essential military role of French approved Japanese penetration of Indo China, without which the Malayan and Burmese campaigns would have been impossible; the production of French factories for the German army; the presence of Axis military missions in Martinique and Madagascar; and the use of French facilities to aid the Nazl Libyan campaign proved that Vichy has been an integral part of Germany's New Order...