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...ladder, the Takasago's grinning captain held out his hand to help him aboard. He wanted to cooperate fully in the search, he said; he was on 'his way to bypassed, isolated Wake Island 300 miles to the south, to evacuate 960 sick and 14 wounded Jap soldiers. He offered his visitors coffee, tea, cider, sake and whiskey-all declined by the Americans...
Strictly Pink Tea. Lieut. Commander White, very much on guard, decided to stay on the bridge with the Jap captain during the search. For two and a half hours they held what White called "a strictly pink-tea conversation." The Jap captain, who said he had spent ten years in New York City as a youth, asked how the New York Yankees were doing, wanted to know if Babe Ruth was still alive, said he missed American movies and magazines. (When they went back to their ship, the Americans sent over some old copies of TIME and the Reader...
Strictly Filthy. The destroyer tagged the Jap ship for two days; when she sailed from Wake, the Americans prepared to board her again. From 1,000 yards to windward, the crew of the Murray was sickened by the stench of sickness, "like the sweet, sickly odor of rotten fruit...
Japan's most-famed Christian is a near-blind pacifist named Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, March 12). Of recent years, he has been accused of being a mouthpiece for Jap propaganda. Last week, in the Living Church, ex-Missionary L. S. Albright of the International Missionary Council suggested that Kagawa be not judged too hastily...
...basis of his own firsthand knowledge, plus detailed reports from FCC and OWI, Albright pieced together a summary: Kagawa continues to express himself vigorously, sometimes without sufficient data on such touchy questions as the U.S. desecration of Jap bodies. His statements are shrewdly edited and used by the Japanese Government, but he himself has broadcast no anti-U.S. propaganda. Kagawa continues to preach, to organize relief work and to condemn warfare (both Japanese and U.S.). The Albright conclusion : Dr. Kagawa is "an earnest Christian leader who may yet be the hope of Japan...