Roads Men Live By

Germany and Japan cannot in one convulsion seize all the great land and human masses, all the vast concentrations of productive power which oppose the Axis. But the Germans and the Japanese can try to isolate and choke the world's greatest land mass, Eurasia, where the greatest masses of fighting people, the Chinese and the Russians, block their paths to dominion (see col. 1). They were doing a fair job of choking last week. They were reaching for, and blocking, the land and sea roads by which the war materiel of the Americas reaches the warriors of Eurasia (see map).

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