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Bump.

New Troop Moves – 2
Joint Plans Laid to Thwart Japan – 2-3
Japanese Herald ‘Supreme Crisis’ – 3-4
Russians Advance – 5-6
Navy is Superior to Any, Says Knox – 6-7
The International Situation – 6
Italy May Consider Americans Hostages * – 7
China Hails ‘Setback’ to Japanese Intrigue – 7
Mexican School Law Show’s Rightist Trend – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-9
Trojan’s Gain Tie with U.C.L.A., 7-7 ** – 9

The News of the Week in Review
Japan Challenged – 11
Abroad – 11-13
Twenty News Questions – 14
Nipponese Face War They Thought Impossible – 15-16
Big Forces are Massed for Showdown in Pacific – 16-17
East Asia and the Pacific-Possible Path of Widening War (map) – 18
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 19

“Rhyme of the BB-66” (from The New York Times Magazine) *** – 20
Leaders of Our Armed Forces (from the Rotogravure Picture Section) – 21-22

* Update on Harold Denny. If America becomes an official belligerent in the war for some reason these American “hostages” could be in a real fix.

** To Fiji Hill - You are not even on the regular ping lists but you have been right there to root on the Trojans for every game without fail. Who knows whether we will be able to keep up with sports in 1942 and beyond. Right now I am having a hard time keeping ahead of the calendar just with the main news threads. But whatever happens I have enjoyed the football threads and Fiji Hill’s contribution to the project. Oh, and I am glad that USC ends the season with at least a tie. They may not play on New Year's Day this time around but I have a feeling that the Trojans will be back on top in years to come.

So thanks, Fiji, and fight on!

*** I learned something new about Herman Wouk because of this find in the NY Times mag. I didn’t know he ever had any poetry published and I didn’t know he worked for the Treasury Department for awhile. I thought that Wouk (at age 26 in 1941) was still writing comedy for Fred Allen’s radio program. Not so. According to the bio I looked up he quit commercial radio and went to work at Treasury writing promotional material for war bonds. So this poem appeared the year before he became Ensign Wouk, USNR, and went off to the Pacific aboard the minesweeper Zane. It is five years before publication of “Thc Caine Mutiny,” and some 30 years before “The Winds of War – Homer.

What is with that BB 66 ryme? BB-66 was not evens started for 3 more years. It is not a 56 which was launched earlier this year. As far as I can tell no battleships were lanched anywhere near this time.

guessing Knox will want a mulligan on his statement about the USN, by tomorrow.

also: the Hawaii “fortress” nonsense wont look too good tomorrow.