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...indications, the U.S. and Britain had-or would soon have-invaluable bases for use against southeastern Europe. If the Straits were opened to military traffic into the Black Sea, Russia's supply line would be smoothed and shortened. But the U.S. and Britain had also taken on an enormous responsibility. A German attack on Turkey, even if only temporarily successful, could have profound effects on Allied prestige in all Europe...
...making. In such a body, a postwar, pro-Soviet Czecho-Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
...sign reads: "Welcome to Burma-Courtesy of the Hairy Ears." It stands beside a crude road that plunges through the jungles, curls around the southeastern slopes of the mountains on the India-Burma border. The Hairy Ears are the U.S. Army engineers who for ten months now have been working on a prodigious undertaking-the "Ledo Road," a new route into Burma. Last week the Army proudly unveiled...
...untenable for the Germans. In southern Italy, the Allies have already outflanked the Germans in the southern Balkans and destroyed most of Crete's value as a base guarding the Mediterranean approaches. Crete was formidable when it lay between the Allies in North Africa and the Germans in southeastern Europe. Now the Allies are behind Crete. Military men in Cairo expect that island, once a symbol of German triumph and might, to fall "like a ripe apple...
Summer skies over southeastern China burnt away to clear fighting blue last week, and the Japanese launched their annual offensive against the forward bases of the 14th Air Force. Four times during the first day, in waves totaling some 130 fighters and bombers, the Japs swept over two fields. Their objective: to drive the American Air Force out of the eastern lowlands back to the mountains, where it would no longer menace Japan's diminishing shipping. Their success: one U.S. plane destroyed on the ground, at the cost of 16 of their own shot down, a probable 19 more...