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Maybe you'll remember that we started to print TIME in Manila almost the same day General MacArthur marched in (a Jap sniper was still banging away only fifty yards from the bindery). And soon now we will be turning out twenty times as many copies as we could print that first...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. Soon British, Chinese and Russian troops-possibly a division of each-will land in Japan to share the burdens, the discomforts, and the geisha girls. But MacArthur's directives will continue to come from the U.S., and the U.S. will continue to make overall Jap occupation policy...
Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song...
...could exports pay the way. All of the 41 sugar centrals were damaged by the Japs, and much sugar land was ruined in an abortive Jap attempt to raise cotton. In the tobacco-growing Cagayan Valley in northeastern Luzon, only one cigar factory escaped serious damage. (The tobacco industry once furnished 25% of Government revenues.) The rich gold mines (prewar output $39,000,000) were caved in and looted of machinery. Small farmers have no tools; most of their clumsy carabaos, the Filipinos' animal of all work, had been slaughtered for food...
...white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help. Now Dutchmen, Eurasians and Japs were being killed in skirmishes all over the island. Hardly any of it except Batavia, where the natives called a work stoppage, and Bandung, was under white control. The native leader, Soekarno, admitted that he got his arms from the Japs, with whom he collaborated during the war, but pointed to his prewar anti-Jap utterances as proof of good faith. A Mohammedan...