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...bill extending the 40-hour work week (while the majority of the nation would have it stretched to 60 hours), vetoes it because the laborites make a mutual "I'll vote for you if you'll vote for me" swap with the farm bloc. So Singapore, Malaya, Java, the Philippines fall for want of equipment. When is this petty conniving, this sabotage for special privileges...
...three senior commanders under General MacArthur, two were Americans: Lieut. General George H. Brett, a veteran of Java, in charge of the air, and Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
Tokyo said that around Surabaya, The Netherlands' fine secondary base on Java, 150 mines had been swept to open the way inside to Japanese naval units. Domei said that plans were already laid for salvaging 53 Allied ships sunk or beached near by. Even discounting Japanese claims. Allied commanders in Australia knew that Surabaya would soon be turned against them...
...components: 34 uniformed newsmen and photographers who arrived with a big convoy of U.S. troops, plus such veterans of the Battles of Java and Singapore as A.P.'s C. Yates McDaniel, U.P.'s Harold Guard, the Chicago Daily News's much machine-gunned George Weller-a total of over two dozen correspondents, photographers, broadcasters, newsreelmen...
...Cleveland Press (Scripps-Howard) had his hands full answering long-distance telephone calls and letters from other editors who wanted to know how he did it. The city editor was tall, 35-year-old Norman Shaw. Magically, it appeared, within an hour of the grim news of the Java Sea Battle, he had produced a five-column, page-one spread of pictures and biographies of local boys on the cruiser Houston. Most editors had thought themselves lucky to be able to identify the Houston's Commander. How had Editor Shaw got his list of the cruiser's personnel...