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...perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...
...thousand miles from the nearest seacoast, in a converted stove factory in landlocked Kokomo, Ind., Globe American Corp. is building lifeboats for the merchant marine. Its assembly line, which makes one 3,500-lb. boat every two hours, "launched" its 220th boat this week...
...good road, and its capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the future Burma Road traffic will be limited only by the capacity of the port of Rangoon." To Generalissimo Chiang these were heartening words. Cut off by the Japanese from her seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon the Burma Road as is Britain upon the North Atlantic. And even had the burly Chinese truckers, who battle dust, rain, malarial mosquitoes, hangovers and enemy bombers on the ten-day grind to Kunming...
There was more evidence than newspaper talk and statesmen's declarations last week that Japan was taking some of its military blue chips out of China and staking them against the game farther south. Shanghai reported that Japan was already withdrawing troops from inner China toward the seacoast. Shanghai prophets predicted that Japan would concentrate its forces in North China and along a southward line following the rail way from Nanking to Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton - thus controlling China's great seaport sources of trade and revenue...
Biggest new reason the President advanced for the Seaway was to aid shipping and shipbuilding. "The world's merchant tonnage is diminishing at the rate of thousands of tons a month. . . . Seacoast shipyards are already overtaxed with uncompleted construction. . . . We hope that the world situation may soon improve. But we are bound to be prepared for a long period of possible danger. Who can say with assurance that we shall not need for our defense or peaceful pursuits every possible shipbuilding resource, particularly those that exist and may be developed in the interior of our country? ... I am preparing...