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Four years ago, ship-bored sailors on a U.S. transport near Samoa ran across a ravaged English thriller. Its somewhat peremptory title: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. The high-strung, blood-&-guts story furnished so fine a busman's holiday that they dismembered it, passed it around chapter by chapter. To their horror, they found that the last two chapters had gone overboard...
...plan was as comprehensive as the Navy could make it. If it was adopted, the Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...
...small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...
Besides these mainstays, the blueprint calls for a network of secondary bases crisscrossing the Pacific: Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Palaus (all paid for in U.S. blood); eastern Samoa, Wake, Midway (already U.S. possessions) ; Truk and Manus...
This week I have good news for Subscriber Brown and his friends on Raiatea-and for nearly 3,800 other TIME readers on the other side of the world. For this week subscribers all over the South Pacific-in Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, the Tonga and the Society and the Friendly Islands, New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia-will start getting our Pacific Edition by air from Honolulu, instead of our Overseas Edition by ship all the way from San Francisco...