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...most vital problem was one of logistics-getting hundreds of trucks full of food and ammunition daily over hundreds of miles of tortuous mountain roads to supply the over-extended forces. Next he had to bring over from Italy whole new armies to replace the beaten Ninth Army in the north and the newly arrived but already disorganized Eleventh Army in the south. Meantime, Greek and British bombers hammered at the landing places, rendered Valona and Durazzo "almost useless" in the wake of the new arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem. British...
Washington still held to its tortuous course midway between appeasement and action, while the Navy itched for a go at the little yellow men in their big boats (see p. 32). As usual U. S. public opinion was slow to react, because its leaders had as yet to give it clue or cue. The State Department, in this month before election, was even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force...
...when 45 Japanese planes, taking off from their new bases in French Indo-China, bombed Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, vital aviation and manufacturing centre, junction of both the Burma Road and Indo-China Railway. Japan was also in position to bomb supplies brought by motor truck over 600 tortuous miles of the Burma Road, if & when Britain reopens...
...Castle) became interested in the historical evolution of socialism some years ago, has had the present book in mind for six years. To the Finland Station is a study of the slow development of socialist ideas. His purpose is to explore the origins of socialist thought, to trace its tortuous course up to the time it became a political power. He describes this development in terms of the men who transformed it, interlacing a biography of ideas with the biography of the men who held them...
...shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...