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...seen seven of his companions commit suicide. He had started to take his own life on three separate occasions, but each time the thought of his seven children stopped him. Last week, lonely and desperate, Private Arimoto came out of hiding and surrendered to the U.S. conquerors of Guam. Thus he learned that the war was over...
Migratory Worker. On Oahu Island, Hawaii, Plumber Jerry Kennedy heard of a job opening on another island, jumped into his 30-ft, sailboat, sailed over to apply-on Guam, 42 days and over 3,000 miles away...
...other hand I was unsuccessful in obtaining the fortification of Guam. ... I was unable to persuade the navy and the administration that airplanes could destroy battleships...
This Yankee from Olympus had learned a great deal since the bad old isolationist days. But he, and thousands of other eager new Truman Doctrinaires, still had to learn that Britain was not Guam. Most Americans took Britain's role as a U.S. ally for granted. If the chips ever went down, Britain could scarcely play any other role. And there was still a vast reservoir of British good will toward the U.S.-as a British miner's wife illustrated last week by soundly bussing U.S. Ambassador Douglas.* Nevertheless, Britain was a resentful and reluctant ally...
...hear more this week, when party delegates convene for their annual conference at Margate (Britain's Atlantic City). There the party "rebels" (Nye Bevan, Dick Grossman et al.) will push their attacks against Ernie Bevin's foreign policy. They accuse him of 1) turning Britain into a Guam by undue dependence on the U.S., 2) being too hostile to Russia. The party's pamphlet, called Cards on the Table (a favorite Bevinism), admittedly is a defense against these charges...