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...Nisei could well be proud of their record. Many had distinguished themselves in combat-most notably in Italy.* But more important to victory in the Pacific had been the work of Japanese-Americans who had translated and analyzed thousands of captured Jap documents, crossed no man's land to talk Japs out of their caves, interviewed prisoners to get information. As their worth was proved, they had gradually advanced from rear-area assignments to the front lines, where they were in double jeopardy-from the enemy, and from fellow G.I.s who mistook them for the enemy. The Army Command...
...Bombay last week "Butler's Buttercups" struggled desperately with the ghost of Subhas Chandra Bose. On the birthday of the onetime Congress party leader who had gone off to lead a Jap-sponsored Indian army and die in a Jap plane crash, thousands of Hindus jammed downtown streets shouting Bose's battle cry, Jai Hind, (Victory to India...
...quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with the Japanese; but anti-Jap natives still rallied to his nationalist party...
Most rankling of all is the war record of the Dutch army in Java. Built into a formidable myth by misleading propaganda, it yielded quickly to the Japanese. Now Indonesian papers fling taunting jibes like: "We pitied the Dutch when the victorious Jap hordes sent Dutch soldiers fearfully fleeing in sarongs and pajamas or underwear, hurriedly throwing their equipment away...
...Meanwhile, Father Perez went back to sleeping on the boards. Disgusted G.I.s are wondering why Jap prostitutes can get U.S. penicillin but a missionary...