Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berkman sees milkweed as a permanent, profitable crop which can supplant Java kapok now and after...
...eyebrows in civilian defense and war relief in Manhattan was little Raden Ajoe Abdullcadir Widjojoatmodjo, Javanese princess, refugee from Jap-invaded Batavia. Air-raid warden, Red Cross worker, lecturer, maker of surgical dressings, she remembers a legend that foretells a better day: "Three hundred years ago, a king of Java prophesied that yellow people would invade Java-but not for long. Look at that-not for long. Means they will not be there long, the Japs. It is good omen...
...victim was Ben Robertson Jr., a soft-voiced, insatiably curious South Carolina bachelor who loved truth and people. At 39 he had lived a full life, sampling the world: he had newspapered in Hawaii and Australia, clerked in a U.S. consulate in Java, wandered through Borneo and India; he had worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Associated Press (in Washington, London) and for the New York newspaper PM (London Moscow, the Middle East, India); he had written three books praised by critics; the latest: Red Hills and Cotton, published in 1942. Last week, newly rehired...
...other correspondent killed at Lisbon was no veteran. Frank J. Cuhel, 38, unmarried and a 1928 Olympic Games hurdler from Iowa, was an export firm's Java representative in 1941. Pearl Harbor changed his life. He became a Mutual Broadcasting System correspondent in the Dutch East Indies, survived many a bombing, got out a hop ahead of the Japs, then broadcast from Australia until last year's end. He did so well that Mutual decided to send him to North Africa...
...Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast. "The fellows got shot." The people listened to news broadcasts until the Japs sealed their radios...