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Meeting with the Plan E Committee yesterday, Grey mapped plans to help late office the 10 candidates supported by the Committee. Students will distribute propaganda outside the 150-foot neutrality areas which by law surround the polling booths. Others will check off the names of loyal voters as they come to the polls and arrange to have cars pick up those who have not appeared...
Secret of the new intensity: the 182-ton steel tower of the transmitter rests on four porcelain insulators set on concrete pedestals on an island poured between a few rocks in Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, N.Y. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1940), and is completely surrounded by salt water, the ideal "surround" for radio projection...
They could also say they were marching on Moscow. A Berlin spokesman said last week: "No city is the objective of our operations. If Moscow should fall within the range of them, that would make no difference to us. We aim to catch, surround and destroy the enemy armies wherever they may be." Just the same, the Germans could not help remembering what a difference the fall of Paris made, knowing what the fall of Berlin would mean to themselves. Last week the city itself was not immediately threatened; this week Joseph Stalin's Government was preparing to move...
...Like most of us, he had weaknesses which brought him unhappiness. Most of his friends, however, will remember that with him life was usually gay, and he would not want gloom to surround his memory...
Conversely, the Japanese have deliberately put themselves in a spot encircled by hostile possessions. The ABCD powers -American, British, Chinese, Dutch-surround Indo-China. The Japanese line of supply is now a 2,000-mile sea route from Cam-ranh Bay to Nagasaki, and U.S. planes, submarines and surface vessels operating from Manila could make it an uncomfortable route. To reach Indo-China the Japanese have to pass through one of two channels-the 150-mile channel between Formosa and the mainland or the 235-mile channel between Formosa and Luzon-where patrols can keep a good lookout...