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...this increasing relaxation of expectancy led Winston Churchill and his colleagues to be more on the alert than ever. If by letting the equinox go past, Hitler was just confusing the British, the guard must stay up. If by letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared they might not be next spring. Ole Bill, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's famous cartoon philosopher-private, recently said...
Alaska has been vulnerable to invasion since navies were converted from sail to steam. It took the airplane to make it a strategic area from which an attack could be launched against the U. S. From the southern boundary of the narrow, water-laced Alaska panhandle which extends southward along the western frontier of Canada, Seattle is only 625 miles by air. From Juneau, considerably farther north and west, Pan American Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route...
Sore points with the Japanese are Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber...
...Soviet must now concentrate on European operations and Japan must make its southward policy a more positive step," said Hochi. "Therein lies the full possibility of adjusting Japanese-Soviet relations. Japan's traditional strategy of defending the south and advancing in the north must be reversed. Now is the time for a passive policy in the north and a vigorous advance southward...
This week, on Sept. 22, the sun reaches the autumnal equinox. At that moment in its apparent southward motion it crosses the celestial equator, stands vertically over the earth's equator. And that moment will be heralded by many a U. S. newspaper as summer's end. Thereupon Physicist William Warner Sleator of the University of Michigan will get mad again...