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Singapore's fall was a kick in the stomach to Burma. If the Jap can keep to his schedule, his next stops are Sumatra and Java, Rangoon and the Burma Road. Had Singapore's collapse been delayed for perhaps another fortnight, a warmer reception might have been prepared for the Japs in Rangoon...
Home to Sharon. The Navy Department said that "Tommy" Hart gave up his command with honor, and by his own request. He had extricated his Asiatic Fleet of cruisers, destroyers, submarines and an aircraft carrier from Manila and placed them in Java, where they could stab at the Jap's invading convoys. He had directed the aggressive naval action in Macassar Strait. But his years and burdens told; Washington heard some weeks ago that he was ill. President Roosevelt announced that Admiral Hart-now eight months past the usual retirement age-would come home for a while. He probably...
Thus Cunningham, blasting his own hot air at the "hot air" of the architects who are working toward a more secure world community after the guns cool off, is as backward in his own way as the irreconcilables of twenty years ago. Americans are now giving their lives in Java, the Philippines, and North Africa for a cause upon which no one is agreed. Only if we can give their children a chance to enjoy a life safe from bombings, international anarchy, and moral regimentation, will their death have been justified...
Pounding Japanese assault forces threatened the Allied main Pacific base on Java and the Burma Road to China Thursday...
...threat to Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...