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...manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...
...miles east of New Guinea. Whether the Japs actually landed the small forces necessary to deal with the Solomons' indifferent natives and few, malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...
...Greece. Southward-flowing rivers would carry Hitler into Macedonia and Thrace, where he could witness the Bulgarian invasion of Greece: several hundred thousand peasants have been turned out of their homes to make room for Bulgarian settlers. Beyond Greece would be the blue waters of the Aegean Sea, the purple minarets of Turkey and the terraced olive groves of Syria to lure him on. But some tiresome Nazi underling no doubt would urge the Führer to inspect fleets of dull grey invasion barges, squadrons of bombers, fighters and troop carriers hidden away in the islands off Greece...
...Japanese were little monkeys, just playing at the game of mankind, was the idea that the Japanese were little lackeys, just playing Germany's game. There was no basis in fact for the impression that Adolf Hitler had ordered, or blackmailed, or even wheedled Japan into its southward drive for riches. Japan wanted to be rich. Japan had begun the process of solving problems with the sharp edge of a sword back in 1931, two years before Hitler came to power. Japan is not Germany's tool...
...northern approaches to Java the Jap strengthened his footholds in Borneo and Celebes. From ruined Balikpapan patrols fought southward toward Banjermasin on Borneo's south coast, 300 miles from Java...