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Last week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...
...clue came from Belém, an oven-hot seaport on Brazil's hump. There, one day recently, the shanty-lined streets that lead to Belém's airport were abustle with activity. U.S. jeeps and command cars crowded around the field. The Brazilian police departed; Army guards took their place. Presently, from the North sky, a great transport streaked down. It remained on the field several hours refueling, then took off toward the sea. Usually passengers scurry to the airport building to escape the heat, to sip cafezinho (half black coffee, half Brazilian sugar...
Throughout these eight days Axis rearguard troops backed up, fighting desperately while the remnants of Erwin Rommel's once-great African army streamed on ahead. German artillery blazed away, rocked back, blazed away again from the mountains that surround Italy's loveliest African seaport. Futilely the Luftwaffe rose to ward off the blows of a superior enemy. At last they gave up. Tripoli fell in flames and smoke, much of its harbor facilities, many of its military installations demolished by the fleeing Nazis. They continued to flee as light British warships crowded in and shelled them from...
Unstuck? Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...Chinese noticed it. The question of Hong Kong was not one of extraterritoriality, which concerns the legal rights of foreigners in Chinese territory; the great seaport was legally owned by the British and possessed pro tem by the Japanese. But the Chinese could scarcely help regarding Hong Kong as Chinese, whether it was in charge of British or Japs. And the Chinese had taken hope that foreign sovereignty as well as foreign privileges were about to disappear from China...