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...supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some losses, every convoy carrying U.S.British supplies to Russia...
...admire," President Conant stated, "the fortitude with which you continued the battle for freedom in dark days of peril, when as a nation you stood alone...
...blacker week since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...
China needed U.S. arms. China was imperiled by India's peril. Yet one of China's foremost strategists last week raised his sights beyond the target of his own army's terrible tasks and achieved a global look at World War II. His conclusion: the U.S. and Britain can make their best contribution to the war in 1942 by opening a front in northern Europe. Said bullnecked, moon-faced General Yang Chieh, lecturing to the Chinese War College in Chungking: "In northern Europe ... it would be easiest for Britain, America and Russia to cooperate...
...character is destiny, what is the character of England now? Her present character may well show whether or not her imperial supremacy-which endured from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth-can once again be saved in an hour of peril. And on that destiny-of-character may also largely depend, if her supremacy is almost over, what kind of world the U.S. will presently have to cope with. The following dispatch, by one of TIME's correspondents, is an attempt to estimate England's character-her spirit, her feelings, her attitudes-in the cold wet weather of defeat...