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BEHIND THE RISING SUN-James R. Young-Doubleday, Doran ($3). JAPAN UNMASKED-Hallett Abend-Washburn...
...opponent of Communism in Asia, had just signed a non-aggression pact with Russia, loudmouthed guardian of Asia against Japan. Even five years ago the pact would have been unthinkable. What had happened to Japan? This week two veteran U.S. correspondents in the Far East, "Jimmy" Young and Hallett Abend, told them something about the revolution which Japan is carrying out in the midst of a great foreign...
...Hallett Abend sees nothing funny in the Far East. His book covers more ground than Young's, is tense, timely, ominous. Abend never lived long in Japan. But as New York Times correspondent, he spent 14½ years covering China. More than once he was in hot water with Chiang Kai-shek's Government for his realistic reporting. When the Japanese got to China, Timesman Abend was in hot water all the time. Japan's Washington embassy had called Abend's dispatches "more fair and just than any news reports coming out of China." The Japanese...
Last year Abend was warned by a Japanese friend to cross-examine his servants. Abend asked questions, found that one had been offered a bribe by a Japanese gendarme to put "some papers" in Abend's file. Another had refused $500 to put a box of opium and two loaded revolvers in Abend's car. When Abend complained, the Japanese said: So sorry. "The leader of the plot . . . is being sent back to Japan in chains...
...their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White, Tillman Durdin, Arch Steele and Hal Abend...