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...court. In Lake Geneva, Wis., they found sleek Ralph Townsend, onetime U.S. consular aide in China, a contributor to Scribner's Commentator, mouthpiece-until Pearl Harbor-of rabid isolationists in the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 17). The three were accused of writing and distributing Japanese propaganda without registering as Jap agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENEMY ALIENS: Asps on the Hearth | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Navy's effective raiding, shelling and torpedoing in Macassar Strait, the Jap pushed on through the Indies. The U.S. and the Dutch together did not have enough warships, planes or troops to meet the invader on all his fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward Java | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Jap bombed, then occupied western Borneo's port of Pontianak on the South China Sea. He completed his occupation of Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. He hurled bombs, then troops at the Indie's No. 2 naval base, Amboina in the Moluccas. The brave, brown Amboinese met the enemy with skill at marksmanship and the bayonet. But they were too few and they lacked both naval and air support. The Dutch sadly announced that demolition squads, long trained for just such preventive waste, had wrecked every useful thing in Amboina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward Java | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Jap was almost ready to assault Java. If Java falls, the Indies will fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward Java | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...little corner of made-in-Japan hell on Bataan Peninsula, Douglas MacArthur's American-Filipino Army clung grimly to the last U.S. soil on Luzon. The Jap charged and charged again. He was thrown back. Through the jungles he filtered by squads and smaller groups. Usually he came to an ugly end, but often he did plenty of damage before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Small Plot of U. S. Soil | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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