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Japan's Army of good field commanders, indifferent staff officers and middling matériel has not lacked publicity. China's Army is the army nobody knows. The world at large does not know it, because the small corps of foreign correspondents in China feel they must stick close to big cities to get big stories. Chinese politicians are ignorant of the war front because they consider their job to be in Chungking. The war front is days away from Chungking except by plane, and China has no planes to spare for junkets. Even foreign military observers almost...
...riel. Winston Churchill admitted that it had been impossible for the men to get their heavy equipment off. Apparently the British lost most of the armament of the one armored brigade and whatever heavy artillery was on hand. Previously Prime Minister Churchill had said that the Libyan border had been left to the defense of one armored brigade. This sounded as though there were precious little armored equipment left the British in the Near East...
...with tanks, flame throwers, artillery and all the paraphernalia of attack. A "neutral diplomat" swore that he had, with his own neutral eyes, seen British soldiers step down gangplanks on to Greek soil and march off singing to their billets. The British were said to have landed matériel for five divisions...
...only visible German action last week apparently had nothing to do with a stroke at Ireland or invasion of Britain. It hinted, in fact, at a southerly diversion before invasion. Roads to the south of Berlin were jammed with military matériel, moving south. German air tactics appeared in Greece and Libya (see p. 22). German airplanes based on Sicily continued active attacks on Malta and Crete. The British, now familiar with the Hitler reconnaissance pattern, could only suspect that a southern campaign would be a sure indication of an imminent attempt at invasion...
Last week a steady stream of war matériel was flowing, much of it by air, from British bases in the lower Middle East to new ones in Greece. Some said many Australian and New Zealand troops were going, too, though Britain denied this, saying her only ground troops in Greece were military police and air-base guards. But besides military help, Greece was going to need food, fuel, money. Over her loomed not only the shadow of Germany on the northeast but cold and hunger at home...