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Target & Tactics. Japan hit Pearl Harbor in order to reduce the striking power of the U.S. Fleet beyond Manila. Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...
...Tin. Malaya supplies 75% of world tin; U.S. stocks total some 140,000 tons, more than a year's supply. Bolivia, source of 16% of world tin, can never quite supply all the U.S. needs...
...attack through Thailand would also run into difficult terrain, both swampy and mountainous. It would run into Thailand's questionable Army and, eventually, into seasoned British and Indian troops. But, if successful, such an attack would have the merit of capturing Thailand's resources of rice and tin, of cutting off the Allies' aid to China at its root...
Such a war would center in the South China Sea, since it is through these waters that we get most of our rubber, tungsten, manila hemp, tin and other essential raw materials. Likewise a large part of Japan's necessities flow over this route...
Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...