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...hearty Briton was 55-year-old James Melville Cox, who liked the Japanese, spent 34 years in the Far East as a correspondent for Britain's Reuters News Agency. When Jimmy's body, battered, bloodstained, dying, was found on the sidewalk under a window of Tokyo's Police Headquarters last July, the Japanese Foreign Office announced that Jimmy had committed suicide (TIME Aug. 5), Jimmy's friends did not believe it. They had no evidence, but they knew Jimmy and they knew the cruelty and deceit of Japanese officialdom...
Once having established himself on the St. Lawrence, an invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended...
...BATH-Cecil Roberts-Macmillian ($3). A sentimental journey along the London-Bath express highway by Briton Cecil Roberts, indefatigable World War I correspondent, novelist, lecturer, editor. A pleasant, journalistic exhumation of such folk as John Milton, Highwayman Dick Turpin, Henry VIII, Novelist Samuel Richardson, Pocahontas, the Duchess of Kingston, who two centuries ago attended a ball wearing only a pair of shoes, a sprig...
Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
Every day's delay thus gained, every obstacle placed before it, gave added time for Britain's preparation of home defense against invasion. For no Briton doubted that only by coming and getting them could Germany conquer the British. And by last week the last great democracy of Europe was truly an "island fortress" ringed by air and naval power, manned by 1,500,000 British soldiers, two Canadian divisions, several battalions of Australians and New Zealanders, 30,000 Polish, French and Czech troops. Last week with the calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were...