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...chaos is flashed full of human light and meaning. There is a row of mournfully dazed, wounded men in a boat, their shoulders festooned by a long sheetlike strip of white cloth. There are Japanese prisoners, by that fact presumably among the softest defenders of their island; and in their bleak, barrelbodied, flintlike power you will recognize if you never did before that the enemy is indeed tough. There is a closeup of a bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There...
...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...
...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
Turkey's importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...
...momentary respite from new bombings but not from the aftereffects of earlier raids and the certainty of more to come. Every report from Italy testified to the progressive disintegration of internal morale, the difficulties of defense and to the prospect that beyond the Alps the R.A.F. had found its softest target...