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...heroism can be compared, the most illustrious of America's first heroes was Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...
Between air raids last week they could hear the roll of artillery, the rattling patter of rifles and machine guns from across the narrow waters. As they watched the hills they hoped beyond any expression in stiff British communiqués that soon Chinese troops might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese...
...difficulties in Pan Am's way are as real as war and not unlike it. Pan Am men confront Axis agents, spies and businessmen every day. A progress report on the new airport network, which arrived in Manhattan last week. read like a war communiqu...
...communiqué from the White House last week could well have read: "Operations are proceeding according to plan-for once." The President was smoothly on his way to carrying through the next tiptoe of his step-by-step policy on World War II-this time by modifying the Neutrality...
...conventional as a chess gambit were the first moves of the game. Vichy's loudspeakers rumbled out the most abject communiqué they had ever uttered. It began: "The Japanese Government Information Office published this morning the following declaration . . .", went on for seven paragraphs of pretty indirections. Japan and Vichy were in complete accord, had decided to "cooperate" in the "defense" of Indo-China...