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Defensively the New Georgia group is not much yet. The Navy showed its scorn by sending great, vulnerable PBYs, which are ordinarily reserved for reconnaissance, to attack Munda Field. But if the Japs succeed in building up their strength, the New Georgia group may prove a thorn in the flank of any U.S. attack farther up the line. The Japs might even put in enough strength to oblige the U.S. forces to take it first. And if U.S. forces cannot skip a few islands now & then, the road to Tokyo will be long indeed...
...Mason Dixon line Princeton stands alone as the only major university that refuses to admit Negroes. This week the "Daily Princetonian" attacked this policy as being incompatible with the University's announced adherence to democratic principles. The condemnation of white supremacy at Princeton may be just a thorn in the impenetrable sides of those behind-the-coffee-table democrats who believe that equality in the United States means equality for the white race alone; but to all who think America is fighting the war for 13,000,000 Negroes as well, this college newspaper crusade will bring loud applause...
Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
...selected, oft-bombed positions at Lae and Salamaua (see map), barred from Port Moresby by great mountains. He would set the force down at Buna, near the head of a mountain road, primitive but passable, that led across to Port Moresby. Thus he could get at the thorn. Once he got rid of the thorn, he could launch his attack at thinly held northern Australia or spread east through the flanking island chain as his restless, never-idle sense of movement dictated...
...statement last week, but a man who ought to know. It came, in fact, from the head of WPB's Conservation & Substitution Division, mild, white-thatched Harvey A. Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...