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Last week engineers were hard at work in Bermuda (most important of the eight bases), reconditioning and expanding the new U. S. outpost. There, at Newfoundland and at Jamaica a lot of work must be done before base sites become effective bases. The job will take both time and money - of which money last week seemed to be the more plentiful...
...panorama print, with Smallwood's line of brown-clad Marylanders saving the routed American forces. There are weird night scenes in the Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly over Boone's old Wilderness Trail into Kentucky...
...casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost of Mounties, cut to ribbons by a ruthless attack of the Indians and half-breeds, hears the bugle of the approaching reinforcements. Lynne Overman, a Scotsman, ambushed with the struggling men, barks: "That will...
...ally us with a warring country. But our nine billions for defense, our super-navy now in process of building, our conscription for one-year training, and our goal of 50,000 planes a year make Canada look rabidly isolationist by comparison. Actually, Canada has changed from a British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because of her weakness, a cause of concern to her neighbor...
...expert in African warfare, led the spearhead of a drive from Libya into Egypt. After his first crushing spurt, he had pegged in at Sidi Barrani (see map), and his forces had been consolidating themselves there ever since. The British were 80 miles east at Mersa Matruh, the outpost to which they had decided to retire, with tip & run tactics, whenever the drive from Libya materialized. To south and east, the Italians had already wiped out French Djibouti and British Somaliland, so as to clear the rear. This gave the Italians a strong clutch...