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Last week into Domei's Tokyo offices stomped U.S. officers with an order from the Supreme Commander to close up shop (see INTERNATIONAL). Then Colonel Donald Hoover, censorship officer of U.S. counter intelligence, summoned Jap news chiefs and read them the riot...
...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...
Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...
...picture proves neither the U.S. nor the Jap contention. But it does prove that the New Mexico bomb, exploding only 100 feet above the ground, left a quarter-mile area covered with materials which were radioactive enough, nine weeks later, to take X-ray pictures...
...that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...