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Show SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Work on Jap Bases Continuing to blastat Japaueseout-posts Japaueseout-posts impeding further U. S. advances ad-vances in the Southwest Pacific, ; American airmen returned to Ra-baul Ra-baul and Kahili and showered the : two big enemy air and sea bases : with hundreds of tons of bombs. As a result of persistent U. S. bombing, it was reported that the Japs have been making little use of their air fields of Kahili in the Solomons. Solo-mons. Once the center for enemy craft harassing U. S. positions in the southern Solomons, Kahili has shown little life as American airmen swept over to plaster runways and installations. instal-lations. Heavily screened by fighters, nearly near-ly 5n four-motored Liberator bombers bomb-ers spearheaded the latest blast at Rabaul, which has served the Japanese Japa-nese as a feeder point for supplies for their troops battling in New Guinea and the Solomons. As a result re-sult of recent raids, it was reported more than 800 enemy planes were knocked out. PEACE PLANS: Debated in Senate In the hush of the historic old senate sen-ate chamber, silver-haired Senator Tom Connally (Texas) arose to his feet in his long black coat. Glancing slowly about, he began to read the foreign relations committee's resolution reso-lution defining the principle of America's co-operation with other nations for preserving peace in the postwar world: "... The United States acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance mainte-nance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world." When Connally sat down the senate sen-ate opened debate on accepting the resolution. Some senators charged the measure invited U. S. formation of an alliance with individual countries coun-tries for action against threatening powers, and they demanded adoption adop-tion of a broader resolution calling on the U. S. to join a world organization organiza-tion which could enforce peace through use of military police. |