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...some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...Balkans the struggle of guerrillas against occupying Axis troops grew hotter as the weather cleared. From Yugoslavia's island of freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total...
Meanwhile, in the harsh highlands of Greek Macedonia, a force of 15,000 men banded together, cut the short-cut railroad to the Russian front, via Bulgaria, in five places and attacked two Nazi troop trains, leaving 225 dead & dying Germans. From crag tops they rolled huge boulders down into narrow bends, stopped traffic along the only motor road to Bulgaria...
...Army and cooperation with the War Office, which was impressed by the caliber of Commandomen graduated from the Home Guard. These things gave the Guard a new role that no one dreamed of two years ago. The use of the Home Guard on coastal anti-aircraft guns, in troop transport and in joint field maneuvers indicated what the Government had in mind: shifting the burden of the defense of Britain on to the Home Guard, so that an army of 3,000,000 regular troops could be released for an invasion of the Continent. How great a trust the Government...
...Like troop movements, the shuttling of scientists from campus to campus, plant to plant, is kept quiet-almost absurdly so: Harvard faculty wives are no longer given lists of visiting scientists who can be invited to tea parties. Letter slots were cut in certain important doors at Bell Telephone's Laboratories so that nobody can peer inside. Old colleagues no longer know what their pals are working at. And after hours-which are late and long-they make heroic efforts not to talk shop...