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Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...operation, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur riding in a Flying Fortress, closed the last link in a trap around the Jap in the areas of Lae and Salamaua. The day before, Australians landing on the beach above Lae had shut off escape in that direction. Allied light naval craft guarded the sea approaches, sinking Jap barges that tried to sneak in with supplies and reinforcements...
...Wand consecrated it four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because the missionaries did not run away. So far the Japs have killed nine Anglican missionaries in New Guinea...
...lady in the theater didn't stop crying all through the picture. Maybe she had the cramps, but probably not. She didn't even stop at those funny parts when about fifteen Marines get blasted to pieces by Jap bombers. But "So Proudly We Hail" is that kind of a picture...
Although Allied air attacks against Jap shipping have been mentioned almost daily in communiques, most of the sinkings were by submarines, said the Secretary...