Word: timorous
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Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
Bombers manned by U.S., Australian and Dutch crews struck at three transports off the Aru Islands, two other convoys near western New Guinea. Timor and Amboina were raided...
...convoys moved south through the Bismarck Sea. Allied planes, scouting and bombing as far as the Dutch East Indies and Portuguese Timor, saw disquieting signs" of Jap activity. Both General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtin of Australia understood that the smashing U.S. victory in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15) had not guaranteed the security of Australia and the Allied positions in New Guinea...
...under Douglas MacArthur knew how to use what tools they had at hand. Real security could come only when planes and fuel were available in far greater quantities, and when the Japs had been completely driven out of the Solomons, New Guinea, New Britain and their important bases on Timor...
...trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would launch any fresh offensive or organize any firm defenses in the Southwest Pacific Area...