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Said Lieut. Goad, in Calcutta: "I am a lucky...
...food markets of "filthy Calcutta" display their uncovered wares near drains and open latrines, sprinkle them with unfiltered water. It is an open invitation to cholera, one of the dread diseases of the East...
Last week, once again, a cholera epidemic raged in Calcutta; there were 80 new cases daily. At the Grand Hotel, chief rendezvous of Allied fighting men on leave in the CBI theater, 15 British soldiers had fallen ill and a U.S. Negro orchestra leader had died. The disease was spreading like fire through the city, packed with thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. Although 29 British soldiers had come down with it, not one U.S. serviceman had yet been infected-thanks to the U.S. Army's compulsory vaccination rule...
...time now TIME has been perhaps the biggest single importer into the U.S. of a better understanding of what is going on in other lands. And now that we are printing TIME each week on every continent-in Mexico City, in Bogota, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Honolulu, Manila, Sidney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo, Rome, Stockholm and soon Paris-we hope we are also taking our place as perhaps the most trusted exporter to other lands of a better understanding of America and the part America is trying to play on the world scene...
Among others to whom V-E day will not bring the promise of speedy repatriation are some 400,000 refugees of the Spanish civil war, a great many of them in France, and thousands of Poles in & out of uniform, scattered from Scotland to Calcutta...