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Each day opened with fresh withdrawal, closed with fresh defeat. In the five weeks since war's outbreak, the Japanese had driven 200 miles south. Last week was the worst. It opened with the British hanging on below the tin center, Ipoh. It closed with the British 100 miles south in grim retreat below the Federated Malay States' capital and rubber center, Kuala Lumpur...
...that point nearly all of Malaya's tin and rubber was gone; now only the naval base was left and its site. Singapore, was already within such close reach of the Japanese Air Force that the base could no longer be called importantly naval...
...good man was General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, who only a fortnight earlier had become Britain's Far Eastern Commander. The shortness was no fault of his: he was promoted to be Chief of Staff in the Supreme Command. The grimness was Malaya's: half its tin mines in the hands of the Japs, one-sixth of its rubber plantations lost, Singapore threatened, all of its strategic and material riches poised as if under an auctioneer's mallet: going . . . going...
What the U.S. wants from Argentina and all the Americas is threefold: 1) speedy production of critical materials such as tin and rubber; 2) complete military cooperation with U.S. use of bases at strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace...
...Angeles' most distinguished dogs have hitherto been cinemactors. Many of them are in the Army now. To guard Los Angeles Harbor defenses, 25 dogs are being trained to walk post with sentries, sniff out spies and saboteurs. More than 1,000 dog owners, including the owner of Rin Tin Tin III, have offered the services of their pets. Dogs of war must be. 1) big; 2) intelligent. Best types: German shepherds, Doberman pinschers...