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...declaration had gone by almost unnoticed when it was issued early in January; to Manuel Quezon and all Filipinos who heard of it, it was patent good news. After one year of occupation, the Jap had seized almost everything of value: railroads, utilities, industrial plants, mines, rice and sugar plantations. Some were taken outright; others were acquired by a show of legality, by stock purchases paid for with paper yen. Craftily the Jap had laid plans to hold economic control of the islands, even though he should lose...
...types of seizure the declaration was firm: it guaranteed return of all property, whether taken by force or pseudo-legal means. Filipinos now had binding United Nations assurances that, come war's end, the Jap would be thrown out bodily...
...Indians were among the American troops advancing along the jungle road to Sanananda. One of them was Mess Sergeant Floyd Archiquette. A Jap sniper was firing near the mess tent. "He was making a nuisance of himself," said the sergeant. "Someone...
...Australian troops mopped up the last Jap pockets. Of the 15,000 Japs who once held Papua, only a few stragglers were left. At last, 117 days after the Allied drive began, a communiqué announced: "Ground fighting in Papua has ceased." The end was historic: 117 Japs chose to surrender and live...
...Jap officers, enlisted men and laborers . . . are anything but resigned and sullen prisoners. Once over his astonishment that he is being treated like a human being and given more food than he has probably had for some time, the Jap undergoes a rapid readjustment. Often he becomes a happy-go-lucky prisoner with a passion for horseplay, cigarets, American slang and swing tunes. . . . Each prisoner is allotted five native cigarets daily, but they would gladly trade them all for an American cigaret. Their favorite expression...