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...RA.F. fighters were shot down (and nine German), but the price was low. More important was the fact that the Germans, after weeks of token fighter resistance, now had plenty of pursuit in the air. To the R.A.F. that meant that the blitz was beginning to help their Rus-sian ally as well as hurting their German enemy in his industrial and military establishments. They were sure that some of the fighters they met over France came from Russia. They were also sure a lot more would have to be pulled off the Eastern Front to meet the biggest aerial...
...Army, stung by its Central China defeat, suddenly uncorked a drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...
...members of the U.S.-British-Rus-sian arms conference, which finally convened in Moscow this week, must have been conscious of this British risk. The U.S. delegates must have felt a little bit in the cold. They could look at Britain's Chief Delegate Lord Beaverbrook, perfectly comfortable in Moscow with his devoted valet nicknamed Secret Weapon, and figure that the Beaver would not make much sacrifice. They could figure that Russia was not aiding the U.S. in the same direct military way as it was aiding Britain. They could recall Munich, chide British tardiness in arming...
When embattled Britain bowed to Japanese threats two months ago by closing the Burma Road, China's reaction was immediate and blazing. From the Communist Sian Jih Pao to the Ministry of Finance's China Times the whole Chinese press showered scorn and hate on the British Empire...
...determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is improbable. What is perhaps more possible, certainly what the Japanese hope for, is some sort of coup within Chungking -some violent episode of treachery like the famous Sian kidnapping of Chiang...