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...remaking the map of the world there should be the least possible interference with old and well established political as well as cultural units. In other words, in the case of a country such as Belgium, the effort should be to encourage the Walloons and Flemings to cooperate as fully as possible within old boundaries with such minor changes in local autonomy as may be mutually agreed upon. This principle, of course, must be interpreted in the light of the first principle and also of those that follow. Unless there is some strongly impelling reason to the contrary, old cultural...
...Among Three. Itagaki's career and power had their foundations in the area where he now waits to strike: in North China, Manchuria and the near borders of Russia's Siberia (see map). There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
Japan's main targets are bound to be two: Vladivostok in the southeast, and the famed Trans-Siberian Railway, the long and vulnerable artery of Russian Asia (see map). Since Russia lost the shorter, more direct Chinese Eastern Railway through conquered Manchuria to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian has been the U.S.S.R.'s only land link with her Pacific port. And the Trans-Siberian is perilously open to attack: by land and air from northwestern Manchukuo, by land across the wide but easily passable Gobi (which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than...
...carrier force swung south toward Midway, then lanced west, between the Jap attack force and the Jap invasion force (see map*). Meanwhile, Midway's land-based aircraft had whipped into action...
...opening. Boys use the big lounge, crowd four beds to a room every weekend, fill barbershop, showers, game room, attend gala Saturday night dances with Red Cross-invited WAAFs, WRENs, ETATs, get messages, mail, write names on little flags to stick into their home base on a special map of the U.S. (so that local boys can get together), get free tickets, sign up for popular sightseeing tours, eat doughnuts and waffles, drink real coffee, cokes, no liquor...