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...would need months of experience before they were as battlewise as the German veterans who opposed them. In the northeast corner of Tunisia the fighting was at a virtual stalemate. Across the waist, U.S. troops had advanced to a point 40 miles from Gabés, Tunisia's southernmost port. The advance was a threat to Axis strategy. If the Allies reached Gabés, thus cutting the Axis corridor, they might succeed in stopping the juncture of Nehring and Rommel...
...their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...General Melnik, well knows that such barriers, even when snow clogs the high mountain passes, are not enough to save the Caucasus. Observed Red Star; "No natural obstacle can prevent enemy advances unless it is backed by fire power and men." Melnik, commander of the Red Army's southernmost wing, is more a flat-country fighter than a mountaineer (TIME, Oct. 12), but he is also an expert guerrilla tactician...
Ashoka (beloved of the gods) made India into a united nation in the 3rd Century B.C. He was "the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory." He also popularized Buddhist vegetarianism. After consolidating all India except the southernmost tip, Ashoka remorsefully swore off war, and ruled "for thirty-eight years, trying his utmost to promote peacefully the public good. He was always ready for public business 'at all times and at all places, whether I am dining or in the ladies' apartments, in my bedroom or in my closet, in my carriage...
...nation in South America has entered the war, but all except the two southernmost (Argentina and Chile) have broken diplomatic relations with the Axis...