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Until recently chief of the cost analysis section of WPB, Saunders exploded the current rumors that the government has "released cost accountants like a swarm of locusts" to prey on business, occupying their time and decreasing their production...
Worse, the intervening four months had given the Axis, Japan in particular, time to use Madagascar for refueling submarines that prey on shipping through the 250-mile-wide Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the African coast. German agents had filtered into the island to stir native resistance against the British. Japanese planes had scouted the territory unchallenged. The radio at Tananarive, Madagascar's capital, had kept up a steady chatter of Vichyssoise, inveighing against Britain, the U.S., Jews and De Gaulle, giving prominence to every Axis victory...
...smashed ahead with all their brawn and brains. Railways, supply depots and rolling stock were the particular targets of a section of the Luftwaffe detailed to pound interior supply lines. In groups of from two to 15 planes they came over, often on 15-minute schedules, led to their prey by protecting Messerschmitts. Parachutists armed with tommy-guns were dropped extensively behind the Russian lines. Planes also were dropping tanketka (baby tanks) in numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them. A favorite parachute tactic was to land 100 or so men near a town...
Retractable deck guns, eliminating the previous lag between surfacing and unlimbering conning-tower weapons, enable submarines to open fire almost at the split second of surfacing near their prey...
...trial charged with kidnapping, torture and murder. One of India's sleekest defense counsels, President Mohamed Ali Jinnah of the Moslem League, got him off with an eight-year sentence. Paroled in 1936, he was confined to the city of Karachi, from which he escaped last year to prey upon witnesses who had testified against him. Shortly he was arrested again, for sabotaging telegraph lines, and jailed in Nagpur. But 1,000 miles away his shadow is still dark over Sind...