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...Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
...Wellington Koo, wealthy wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is a collector of jade and friends, a famed hostess, a noted linguist (English, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Malay)-and an unpublished author. For four years she has worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...
...Scotsman. Born near Edinburgh in 1904, son of an engineer, David MacDonald started out in rubber planting in Malay. In 1929, when depression wrung that business dry, an earlier interest in stage and films took him to Hollywood. There a break plus his abilities got him jobs under Directors Cecil De Mille, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway and Raoul Walsh, with whom he went to London...
...totally false. Decisions came from London, and from Lon don, too, should have come the planes without which the Malayan forces were helpless. The decision to arm and train Malayan troops was made too late and would have clashed bitterly with the prevalent opinion among many that the Malay ans were not to be trusted...
...Navy patrol planes crippled an enemy capital ship, and claimed nothing better than crippling. . . . [They] also seized opportunities for small-scale attacks-the bomb-down-the-smokestacks stunts-but that was flea-bite stuff about which they did not talk. . . . The wing [Patrol Ten] went back to the Malay barrier-fighting and flying and fighting. . . . But getting the information-really as much as the High Command could effectively use-getting it in the face of weather, Japanese Zeros, hell & high water; and always without telling the world how good they were...