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It seemed clear that if the oil deal were junked by parliamentary vote (as appeared very likely), Russia would have to back down or use force. Force was always a possibility. Red troops and their Kurdish adherents were reported massing across the border, and a U.S. observer said that north...
Deep in Communist territory to the north, 24,000 Nationalist troops held out in the ancient fortress town of Tatung (now an important rail junction) against a month-long siege by 80,000 Communists. In Jehol, Communists said that Chiang Kai-shek was massing for a drive against Chengteh.
Although the two had disagreed on many things, they saw eye-to-eye on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Their testimony gave the most intimate account yet told of the fated diplomacy of 1941 : August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted...
British reconnaissance showed that up to 100,000 Indonesian troops, whose Jap materiel included 62 planes, were massing in central Java. The British themselves began landing a second division, rushed up more warships and planes. Most of the British troops were Indian soldiers who had little liking for the job...
¶ "The biggest massing of air power the world has ever heard of" will soon throw 7,500 bombers and fighter bombers, and later 10,000 of them, against Japan.-General George C. Kenney.