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...this time we had begun to hear a fantastic story that some of the 20,000 civilians on the island (of whom we had interned 10,000) were killing themselves. I headed for the northern tip of Saipan, a place called Marpi Point, where there is a long plateau on which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were...
Teachers who go to Ethiopia will find a healthful climate (most of Ethiopia is a high plateau), a great affection for the U.S.-and a tough language, Amharic. But an attempt is under way to reduce" its 200 odd characters to 90, make typewriters feasible. English, taught in the few schools which Ethiopia still possesses, has already replaced French as a second language...
Three More Months. Barring unexpected catastrophes of battle, the war peak will be reached in three more months, stay on a plateau for a little while, then start downward. Some war items may even be stepped up (e.g., tank production, only a trickle for months, was ordered into high gear last week when beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many...
...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
...eleven more days the French held their plateau against German siege and attack. Food and munitions were smuggled to them by other Maquis bands. Frustrated, the Germans withdrew to reorganize their attack. Then, at night, most of the French slipped quietly away...