Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesuit Mission Press in Manhattan dug up this ancient history in reporting that today's Japanese invasion has brought 6,000 Filipino lepers on the blockaded island of Culion near starvation...
...wealth amounted to; 3) she habitually signed papers without reading them. Husband James H. R. Cromwell, from whom she is now estranged, changed his mind about living in Hawaii, she said, because he had "political ambitions in New Jersey" in 1938, but she herself plans to return to her island home, Shangri-La, when the war is over. "I love to be out of doors," she explained...
...American prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. They had a very sad expression on their faces, but they are admiring the Bushido treatment* they received on the boat from the Japanese. They are grateful for the accommodations given to them in the way of hospitalization. At the beginning they could not eat Japanese pickles, but after trying a few they have taken a liking to them. . . . During their voyage they displayed their typical American individualism, but the Japanese trained them to be more cooperative. ... On the boat, the Japanese exerted every effort to thrash out American individualism...
...broadcasts to the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 26), the Jap knew better than to take the delicately sadistic Oriental line. For short wave to the U.S., Radio Tokyo put Wake Island prisoners on the air by means of recordings, some apparently made on shipboard. The messages, as heard by NBC and U.P. listening posts, indicated that the men had been treated with the respect they deserved. Examples...
...their deepest air raid yet made into the Indies, Japanese planes attacked Koepang and shipping south of there in the strait between Timor and the small Island of Semaoe. There was said to have been no damage or casualties...