Word: batavia
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...something too. The examiners recommended that Pan Am hold its prewar mid-Pacific service from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hong Kong via Manila, expand to Tokyo, Bangkok, Batavia and Calcutta, where it would connect up with Pan Am's routes east from New York, thus nearly circle the globe. It would also keep its prewar route to New Zealand and add a route to Australia via Noum...
...troops were thus cut off. They would remain, as a giant hedgehog behind the Allied front, just as the German garrisons in Channel and Biscay ports remained after the sweep across France. They would remain for a similar purpose : to deny such ports and bases as Singapore and Saigon, Batavia and Suerabaja to the Allies. Others like them would remain in major Chinese ports, such as Canton, Amoy and Swatow...
...uptilted eyebrows in civilian defense and war relief in Manhattan was little Raden Ajoe Abdullcadir Widjojoatmodjo, Javanese princess, refugee from Jap-invaded Batavia. Air-raid warden, Red Cross worker, lecturer, maker of surgical dressings, she remembers a legend that foretells a better day: "Three hundred years ago, a king of Java prophesied that yellow people would invade Java-but not for long. Look at that-not for long. Means they will not be there long, the Japs. It is good omen...
Into jail went all Batavia's white police officials, heads of business firms...
...Japs seized several U.S. films in Batavia. One was Charlie Chaplin's satire on Hitler, The Great Dictator, which they showed "four or five times for a bunch of Japanese officers and they all had a big laugh out of it." Their favorite picture was 1,000,000 B.C. ("It showed the white man in a rather low state of life. They sit tearing at bones and acting like animals...