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...Republic (TIME, June 14), more than any other single statement, has popularized the idea of a longtime military alliance with Britain, the Soviet Union, and, if possible, China.* Editor Armstrong answers: U.S. interests have no limits. They fringe out all over the world, and it is just in the outermost zones that disputes may originate which would take the U.S. into another war. Therefore he has no faith in blocs or alliances, military or diplomatic. His conclusion: ". . . The general acceptance of a general relationship, with general though graduated responsibilities, offers the only basis for organizing world peace...
Attack from the North. Tonguing out from Alaska, 1,150 miles into the north Pacific toward Tokyo, lie the U.S. Aleutian Islands (see map, p. 17). The outermost U.S. base, Dutch Harbor, is 2,550 miles from Tokyo-well beyond effective bomber range. But the Aleutians stretch halfway to Japan's little-known naval base at Paramoshiri in the Kuriles, which means that they could be either targets for Japanese attack or U.S. steppingstones toward Japan. Heavily armed, carefully balanced striking forces might take off from Alaska and the Aleutians, perhaps get the use of Russia's naval...
...chain of Atlantic defense sites on which the U.S. is to build bases now reaches from Greenland to British Guiana. In a sweeping agreement with the Danish Minister in Washington last week, the U.S. took over protection of the world's biggest island, moved the U.S.'s outermost line of potential defenses 900 miles nearer Europe, only three miles from the Nazi war zone. Yet in a week of staggering reverses and calamities, the U.S. could draw one lesson clearly: the new base sites should have been secured long ago, so that instead of sites we would have...
...body, to Fernel, had no powers of its own. "It does not work; it is worked." Into the material embryo, about 40 days after conception, life entered from the outermost sphere of the Earth-centered Ptolemaic universe. Before this infusion of celestial life, the embryo was merely part of the mother...
...first telescopes on the big planet). Professor Alfred Harrison Joy plotted the rotation of the Milky Way-the great star galaxy, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, to which the sun and all other visible stars belong. The regions near the centre of the galaxy are rotating fastest, the outermost regions slowest. By measuring the speeds of Cepheid variable stars, Professor Joy found that the region of the sun, two-thirds of the distance from the centre, rotates once every 207,000,000 years...