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4. From them Japan could raid the supply lines of Suez and India.
5. They command a 3,300 mile short cut from the U. S. to the Burma Road.
52. And then on Jan. 23 a great Japanese invasion fleet sailed into the Strait of Macassar and:
1. Laid siege to Australia's Port Darwin.
2. Landed a huge force on oil-rich Sarawak.
3. Met and sank Japan's third British battleship.
4. Was met and scattered by the U. S. Navy.
5. Occupied the great Dutch Naval base at Surabaya.
53. A week later the U. S. Navy:
1. Said it had withdrawn all ships to Hawaii.
2. Admitted such damage at Pearl Harbor that it could not mount an offensive action for six months.
3. Successfully raided Jap bases on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
4. With crowds cheering, sailed into Canberra Harbor.
5. Announced U. S. submarines had sunk 26 Jap ships in ten days off Tokyo Bay.
54. As war came ever closer to India Prophet Gandhi:
1. Was defeated as head of the India National Congress Party by Nehru.
2. Resigned—and Jawaharlal Nehru became leader.
3. Asked all India to abandon nonviolence.
4. Said Hitler could be no worse than Churchill.
5. Told Indians to fight now, worry about independence later.
55. With all Australia angered and endangered by the unexpected weakness of Britain's Far Eastern defenses, Prime Minister Curtin:
1. Won a non-voting seat in Britain's War Cabinet.
2. Demanded Churchill's resignation.
3. Threatened a separate peace.
4. Said Britain could better afford to abandon Egypt than Australia.
5. Said Australia would rather be a U. S. dominion than a British.
56. Big question in the Far East, "What will Russia do?", was answered by Ambassador Litvinoff, who said Russia:
1. Would not declare war but would open her airfields to American bombers.
2. Would keep her non-aggression pact with Japan.
3. Would attack Japan as soon as she received more American supplies.
4. Was already at war with Japan in Siberia.
5. Would concentrate on the main job—beating Hitler.
WAR IN EUROPE
57. On the eastern front things went so well for the Nazis that by late November the Russians still held only one of these cities:
1. Rostov.
2. Kerch.
3. Sevastopol.
4. Kharkov.
5. Kalinin.
58. And the British concentrated in the Southern Caucasus, fearful that a breakthrough would put the Nazis in position to do all but one of the following:
1. Take the Baku oilfields.
2. Threaten Russia's southern lifeline.
3. Squeeze Suez from the East.
4. Capture the 25% of Russia's industry near the Caspian.
5. Threaten Iran's oilfields.
59. On the central front the Nazis advanced so rapidly that:
1. They completely surrounded Moscow.
2. The Government (but not Stalin) moved to Kuibyshev.
3. Stalin declared Moscow an open city.
4. With the Finns they took Moscow's suburbs.
5. Most of Moscow's workers were evacuated.
60. But in late November Russia counterattacked and in a month all but one of these things happened:
1. The Nazis were driven out of Kharkov.
2. Goebbels warned Germany of possible