GOOD NEWS COMING
Midway Island Battle
Alter a meeting of the Pacific War Council.in Washington, the British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, said: "I am greatly encouraged by President Roosevelt's account of the battle of Midway Island. Mr. Walter Nash said: "President Roosevelt's report was all good news right through; as good as we have had, and perhaps the best we have had.
In New York, the "Herald Tribune," considering the results of the Midway Island Battle editorially, reached the conclusion that the balance of aircraft-carrier superiority in the Pacific may have shifted to the United States.
An article written by a Japanese prisoner of war and published in a Chinese journal also declared that the Japanese forces had been routed in the Coral Sea engagement and that the ships had sacrificed protection to armament and speed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 5
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