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...Peace but a Sword. The new Cabinet, strongest in 20 years, means not peace but a sharper sword. Its one objective is victory, Japanese style. Said Koiso: "I hope to attain our objective in close collaboration with our allies...
Then the Chinese Army turned on counterpressure. New troops came in from other districts, attacks grew sharper. In the face of this opposition the Japanese apparently began to withdraw. There were even reports that siege lines around Hengyang were cracking...
...flyers of Group Twelve, now to be dispersed to spread their lore among new airmen, carried away many another memory last week as they said goodbye and went to their new stations. But none was sharper than the great carrier strike on Rabaul...
...minute intervals; and while he is busy with booby traps, poisons, axes, nooses and knives, one of those storms blows up that shakes the house and douses the lights. Once it encounters suitable weather, and has piled up enough corpses to throw the few jittery survivors into sharper relief, Ten Little Indians gets pretty menacing and tense; things happen, and the characters become more than toppling tenpins. But. the first act is talky and slow, and even the second act's murders are leisurely. And in terms of psychological interest, eight people with a motive for killing...
...Devers swept through each other's former command. In North Africa General Devers, fresh from England, bore down on "reports," especially "lazy reports," demanded action in the flesh rather than on paper. In Britain General Ike, fresh from Africa, ordered the well-pressed Military Police into still sharper uniforms...