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During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
Last week "Jimmie" Devereux, rescued at long last from a Jap prison on Hokkaido Island, anxiously sought to set his record straight. He had never asked for more Japs. Said he, dryly: "We had more than we could handle right then and there...
...Seoul, General Hodge heard from General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo (which had heard from Washington). Hodge changed his policy, dismissed Abe and other high Jap Army officials...
...Jap Legacy. Japan's "Asia for the Asiatics" policy had not been choosy about its instruments. The Japanese had armed the Communist-led Viet Minh party, encouraged anti-French agitation...
...Tokyo TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried talked at length with Kagawa, founder of Japan's Kingdom of God movement, biographer of Christ, and militant pacifist. War has not shaken Kagawa's faith; he is still a Christian. He is also still a patriotic Jap. Gottfried's report...