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...many years, both as a newspaper editor and as an individual citizen, I have been fighting the Jap menace in America. A year before Pearl Harbor, I saw what was coming and tried to get into the armed forces. I was turned down because of age. Three months ago my only son gave his life for his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...course, if you are one of those-and there seem to be many in this country-who want the Japs running your land, there is little we can do except to pray for your misguided soul. The only possible consolation we can see in that picture is that, if the Jap takes over, he perhaps might do a better job of running TIME than do some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...

Author: By James G. Trager jr., | Title: Harvard Trains Officers for Military Occupation in East | 5/22/1945 | See Source »

...order the demolition of a few houses to get nails and lumber used-on new construction. Plenty of lumber was also needed for coffins." Jap Interruption. Eventually Ruiz had Pathfinder running smoothly, and was producing five to seven tons of rubber a month. But not before more trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: A Letter from Zamboanga | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...April 1944, the guerrillas and Japs fought a lively skirmish within sound of the plant. Next a Jap seaplane bombed and machine-gunned the nearby town of Kabasalan. When a rumor spread that the Japs were planning to attack Pathfinder, everybody took to the hills. With them they carried their priceless marine motor, and their stock of cured rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: A Letter from Zamboanga | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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