On my honour, Mrs. Courtenaye, you will make me an advocate for petticoat government, after such a specimen of its excellent influence. Still, my young friend, I am like the rest of the world—cannot leave well alone—must have you up to town.
It takes only a brief glimpse at a 1941 map of the Pacific to see why Wake Island was considered to be of such strategic value to the United States and why it was such an early target in Japan's program of conquest. As the war planners on both sides saw the situation in the late 1930s, possession of Wake was vital to the defense of their territory.
I was a man born to a field estate:/Abaddon was my brother, and he grew/To his vast prime, an omniarch, elate/With knowledges of power, and, ere the dew/Of youthful mom fled his pellucid eyes,/His soul had cleft the vaulted centuries.
The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
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