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...been strongly hinted that the defendants, accused of conspiring with the Nazis to undermine morale in the U.S. armed forces, are trying to stall until the war ends. If delay has been a deliberate defense tactic, it has been a spectacular success. In the past 18 weeks...
...Confused Three. Lack of authority to make even minor decisions slowed the Commission to hopscotch pace. Gusev could not agree with Winant on any point without asking Moscow. Usually he got a Soviet counterproposal which Winant had to stall until he could hear from Washington. In spite of all the machinery set up for collaboration, the final collaborators remained the Big Three's Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin). There were signs of real progress toward concrete agreement (see p. 12). If so, the progress was made outside of the Advisory Commission...
Submarines, operating in the China Sea, hacked at the lifelines which carried coking coal from Indo-China, oil from the East Indies, materials which the Emperor's war machine must have or stall. Washington announced this week that 14 more Jap ships, including three transports, had fallen victim to the raiders, bringing the submarine score against Jap ships to 422 definitely destroyed...
...there was a limit to MacArthur's campaign, no matter how well fought. Without greater reserves of men, materiel and, ships than he appeared to have last week, his blitz would stall and die. About that limit, and the reasons for it, General MacArthur had something to say last week (see below...
...night but be invisible to the enemy; an improved means of signaling the identity of ground troops to friendly planes and vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage for use by "friendly inhabitants within [enemy] occupied areas...