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...rape and slaughter of British women, including war hospital nurses." A U.S. dentist who had practiced in Hong Kong seven years. Dr. J. S. Pyne, told of Hong Kong's fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There was no crying and chins were up. Four-hundred of us were put into a hotel where 93 of us shared one dirty toilet and one bath. We were watched by Indian and Chinese police who had gone Jap. They slapped whites for as little...
...student not yet in uniform can contribute to the success of the war effort is scheduled to start on July 1 at 4 p.m. with a talk on general opportunities in civilian defense both in Cambridge and "back home." Designed to put incoming freshmen and summer school enrollees abreast of the latest developments on the home front, the addresses are being sponsored by the War Service Committee...
Numbering about 300, the battalion, will parade into the drill hall where the visitors will be seated, and will march in six abreast in four companies. The battalion will be dressed, and the colors marched on and presented to the Color Company, the Second Company commanded by Student Lieutenant Thomas T. B. Godfrey...
...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...
...Nebraska editors and publishers reported that their communities were now overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's foreign policy, substantially in favor of Neutrality Act repeal. Said one editor: "The so-called 'Isolationist Midwest' exists only in the minds of Congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months...