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...Army & Navy volunteers, mostly medical personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
...bewildered Jap prison-camp commander at Keijo, Korea said that he had no instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...
MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
MacArthur had warned the Japs that Allied reconnaissance must continue, but when B-32s droned on photographic missions over the Tokyo region, Zeros attacked. One B-32 had an engine shot out, and its pilot asked the lead plane to slow down so that he could keep up. A Jap fighter pilot cut in on the same frequency, in English : "Yes, please slow down so that I can catch you and shoot you down." Tokyo and Manila exchanged a dozen formal messages and many more informal items. For one thing, the Japs had to have more time to start envoys...
Died. Henry Waters Taft, 86, brother of the late President, onetime tobacco trustbuster under Theodore Roosevelt; after a hip injury; in Manhattan. Long interested in improving U.S. -Jap relations, when they were considered improvable, he was decorated in 1929 by Emperor Hirohito - with the Order of the Double Rays of the Rising Sun, Second Class...