Word: suva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Vice Admiral John W. Greenslade calls "omnibian," air and sea bases are as important as numbers of planes and ships. In this respect Japan is in a far stronger position than the Allies. At sea, while the Allies improvise with external lines at such harbors as Noumea and Suva, the Japs have great forward bases at Rabaul, Surabaya, Singapore, intermediate bastions...
...relief to the soldiers in the bar of the Grand Pacific Hotel at Suva when Secretary of War Stimson announced last week that there were U.S. troops in the Fiji Islands. They had begun to worry about being legally admitted to this war. Not long ago a lugubrious major, shaking his head over his first highball after several weeks in the jungle, had observed: "We might go all the way through the war and nobody would ever know we're here. Nobody but the Japs. The other day the Navy radio was checking its time with Greenwich, when Tokyo...
...Japs found they couldn't run the Solomon Islands without the help of an American-born missionary. And so the last word via Suva is that stocky, jolly little Bishop Thomas Wade is out of jail and very busy protecting his flock from the Japs and the Japs from his flock...