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Manus is still growing. Steam shovels and bulldozers are clearing the way for new docks. But, like the other improvised bases in the Pacific, Manus may never be quite finished. Said an admiral: "Our ambition is to leave unfinished bases all the way across the Pacific to Japan." A signpost on Manus reads: "Tokyo, 2,000 miles; Manila, 1,670 miles...
...Atlantic Charter remains the guiding signpost, expressing the vast body of opinion among all the powers now fighting together against tyranny. [But] the Atlantic Charter in no way binds us about the future of Germany. It has no quality of a bargain or contract with our enemy...
...This is the island where Marine anti-aircraft gunners have hammered up a signpost labeled 'Tokyo,' and painted another that reads 'Golden Gate in '48, breadline...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
Perhaps the best signpost to the trend of the times is the plight of Pudding, now the Hasty Pudding Service Club, for the use of officers stationed here. Then there's the Yard, with a play-pen for officers' kiddies next to Hollis Hall, and civilians seance as hen's teeth among the ancient elms...