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After this initial exchange of blows we made a circle off the transports at the "Canal" and when we returned ... an enemy ship was blasting away at the Australian cruiser Canberra. . . . Captain Bode made a fair and cool decision when he decided against entering the engagement, for he saw his duty was to protect American boys on the unguarded transports lying in the harbor...
...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...
When Field also lost a job as barkeep in Canberra's Hotel Kingston, he charged that the Brigadier had brought pressure through a brewery to have the hotel sack him. His wife (once the Governor-General's cook) also found she could not land a job. The Fields complained to the Canberra Trades & Labor Council that they were being "victimized" by the Brigadier...
...Brigadier Schreiber, heard his denial of the Fields' charges. The Council officially: (1) blacklisted the whole Schreiber household by denying it all union services, such as delivery of groceries, household repairs, gardening chores; 2) ordered the Kingston to reinstate Field on threat of extending the boycott to three Canberra hotels; 3) requested the Prime Minister to send Schreiber back where he came from-England...
...time. On the blackest night in U.S. naval history, off Savo Island, the Japs destroyed the Allied cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra. Pat, hit and hurt, stood by and picked up 400 survivors. It was the kind of work expected of destroyers. They were the tin cans and expendable...