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...Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...
Some other recent books about Japan: RAMPARTS OF THE PACIFIC-Ha I left Abend-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Among this book's merits is the exactness of its figures on Japanese planes and plane production. Correspondent Abend's figures: Japan has more than 6,800 Army & Navy planes of all kinds; can produce no more than 300 planes a month; has never reached its yearly quota of 4,000, owing to shortages of alloy steels and machine tools...
...working out the plan to keep the Army abreast of changing trends throughout the world, and to school our enlisted youth in the true value of our challenged democracy, the War Department has engaged over 150 well-known speakers, including William L. Shirer and Hallett Abend, to dish out the uncensored facts to buck privates. Already, over 350,000 pamphlets and four tons of maps are ready for shipment to training centers. And less recently, Army posts have been introduced to a new orientation course. It includes 15 fifty-minute lectures on world events leading up to Pearl Harbor...
...Correspondent Hallett Abend, in a wireless to the New York Times, paid unwilling tribute to Nipponese ingenuity. Said he: "Other semi-hostile Japanese naval actions have been openly conducted, without the slightest attempt at secrecy, always keeping 2,000 yards beyond the utmost range of American coast-defense batteries. The only disturbing feature of this phase of Japanese naval activity is how Japanese espionage agents have so accurately learned the extreme shooting range of the shore batteries...
...Admiral Nomura thought Cordell Hull would sell China or the East Indies down the river, in exchange for a promise from Japan, he did not know his man. Japan, as Mr. Abend expected, promptly denied that any such proposal had been made. Mr. Hull merely said stiffly that U.S. policy in the Far East remained exactly what it was in April 1940, when he told Japan that any change of status in The Netherlands East Indies would be "prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security...