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Target & Tactics. Japan hit Pearl Harbor in order to reduce the striking power of the U.S. Fleet beyond Manila. Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...
That she is not prepared, however, to abandon southward expansion, Lieut. Rianburo Ando, minister without port folio, revealed last night in predicting Japan will try to cut China's Burma Road and move into the Netherlands East Indies...
Nobody planned Saburo Kurusu's trip to impress him. But there is now no way to cross the U.S.-except on foot through the woods, or on a dark night above the clouds-and not see signs of U.S. arms, signs of U.S. strength. Kurusu flew southward over United's crow line, over California's infinitely fertile farmlands, over forests of oil derricks, in fields which alone produce many times as much oil as Japan consumes. Around them lay the exotic square miles of California, in itself almost twice as big as the mainland of Japan...
BERLIN--Unofficial but usually reliable Nazi quarters said tonight that German troops had crossed the partially frozen Don River and were chasing the Russians southward toward the Caucasus...
Wheel down, wheel down to southward...