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...Mare Nostrum is nobody's sea. Italy's ports of Naples, Messina, Taranto and Palermo and Italy's Navy serve the Germans, conveying war stuffs across the Mediterranean to North Africa (see map). German troops and fortifications guard Crete, the strongly defended shores of Greece and Yugoslavia on the Adriatic. The Germans have another strong point at Rhodes, lesser forces in the other Italian Dodecanese and the Greek islands just off Turkey. But the Mediterranean is not yet an Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine...
...Mare Nostrum" is what the unoriginal Japanese broadcasters call the Arafura Sea, which separates Australia's north coast from the western half of New Guinea. This Jap-claimed sea, nearly 4,000 miles south of Tokyo, is half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They...
...Wounded. Over San Francisco's Mare Island, barrage balloons turned slowly in a cold wind. The white collars of sailors lined up to greet the President whipped about their necks. From the windows of the Navy hospital, scores of men in pajamas watched while the President shook hands with men in wheel chairs on the lawn. The President spoke to Marine Leo Lopacinski, who killed 36 Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he himself was wounded. He examined a U.S. submarine which had nine little Japanese flags painted on the conning tower-one for each ship it had sunk...
...Army found how at least one phase of a mare's nest of Caribbean intrigue had worked. The head man was Gough, an ex-rumrunner supposedly turned respectable, who pulled much of his information from a blowsy Colon nightclub. Besides getting service men and canal employes to buy them drinks of colored water at 75? a drink, the cabaret girls were paid off for information they picked up on ship movements. Gough also got information from native labor sent to Panama through an agency his brother helped to run as part of Gough Bros. Enterprises...
...citizens now could see in shanks' mare the shape of their future. The lowly pedestrian, who had been the funny figure of a man without a car, the man always getting in the way and getting killed, was coming to mean nearly everybody...