Word: oriente
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...these skirmishes, both naval and verbal, indicated that both sides have some pretty heavy plans for the South Pacific. On the Japanese side, the man responsible for plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were...
Taking up his turban in defiance, of the Boston "Herald" and cinema actor Sabu, Harish Mahindra '46, Weld Hall's representative from the Orient, yesterday showed that the Yard was the equal of Hollywood...
...third man who left a mark was Wendell Willkie, whose world-circling trip as the politician without office had an effect perhaps more lasting than the U.S. yet realizes on U.S. relations with Russia and the Orient...
Multiply all this by 100-and I . think you'll know better what it feels like to be a crack correspondent on and off duty in the Orient these days...
...Today the most valuable form of transportation and the scarcest of all is air transportation. We today can well afford, and blessed would we be if we had, 10,000 big four-engine cargo planes that we could supply our forces in the Orient instead of running the hazards of having them sunk on the seas by enemy submarines. If we could carry the millions of tons by air across the Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, instead of shipping it on the high seas, the losses would be almost nil, and it would be carried there in hours instead...