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...From Jap aliens, FBI men took guns, floodlights, cameras, radios, binoculars, a microphone, an amplifier, a box of sulfuric acid, 14,833 rounds of shotgun ammunition, 60,845 rounds of rifle ammunition...
Singapore was the key. So long as Singapore had been in British hands, easy access to the Indian Ocean had been denied Japan. Now, with Singapore taken and Sumatra under fire, the Jap could, if he wished, send his Navy and his Army into the one great sector of the earth which had been exclusively and safely British...
Singapore's fall was a kick in the stomach to Burma. If the Jap can keep to his schedule, his next stops are Sumatra and Java, Rangoon and the Burma Road. Had Singapore's collapse been delayed for perhaps another fortnight, a warmer reception might have been prepared for the Japs in Rangoon...
...military strategy. The related stories of the Fall of Singapore and Life in the Raffles Hotel have knocked the props out of the white man's prestige in the whole of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek tried to make up for that loss of prestige by instilling fear of Jap invasion in the heart of India, and he was answered by an argument for passive resistance...
...raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands last week, you'd think the Navy had won a second Battle of Trafalgar. This is not to underestimate the significance of the American stroke, but merely to suggest--green headlines and eight-star editions to the contrary--that, compared to the Jap massacre at Singapore and the forty-day annihilation of France, the disabling of a pair of coaling stations can hardly be considered a major triumph...