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Dictator Franco, hastening to change the painful subject, tried to make common cause with the U.S. and Britain (whom he once called "victim to [their] own errors"). Over a Vatican report that Jap troops in Manila had butchered 172 Spanish men, women & children, the controlled Madrid press waxed hotly indignant. An official communiqué protested the "systematic, premeditated murders." An official demand for satisfaction was dispatched to Tokyo...
...Mobilization of a National Volunteer Army - the Jap version of the Nazi Volkssturm - to include all save "the aged, the sick, the very young and pregnant women...
British Columbians generally applauded the Commission's plan. Some even thought it was too lenient (in the Provincial Legislature last fortnight, the Government's agriculture committee recommended legislation making it illegal for Canadian Japs, wherever born, to own or lease any land or business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier...
...Jap broadcaster thus described the havoc wrought by last fortnight's great B-29 fire raid on the Japanese capital. U.S. airmen gave much of the credit to a new type of incendiary bomb called...
...While Jap cities blazed, the R.A.F. was dropping on Germany the biggest explosive bomb of all. Called variously "volcano bomb," "townbuster" and "Ten-Ton Tess" (eleven tons, by U.S. measure), it carves an enormous crater (see cut), tossing up divots weighing five tons apiece...