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Green Snakes. In the South Pacific, the fight for control of Port Moresby in New Guinea unfolded like an old newsreel of the disastrous Malay and Burma campaigns. With their faces painted green and in green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said...
...every 20 years. For the average Asiatic in this war the prestige of Europe has suffered tremendously. . . . The fall of France showed up the rottenness of Western imperialism and the burden which it imposed on the people of the West. . . . Much later came the fall of Burma and Malay. This, at any rate, was a direct lesson to the British that their empire was going to pieces. But the astounding thing is that it has had little or no effect...
...acquaintance. So the Council offered scholarships and subsidies to universities to start courses. Its intensive courses have already begun or are scheduled to begin this summer at nine universities (principally at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, California). Languages to be taught: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Modern Greek, Icelandic, Malay, Mongol, Hungarian, Portuguese, Siamese, Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili, Dutch...
...Siamese will be studied at the University of Michigan, which already has 14 students in a course in Malay...
Instead of cheerful tales about hypothetical Allied coups, the press should tell America exactly where she stands. What was the extent of the damage at Pearl Harbor? If the Pacific Fleet was not hopelessly crippled, why do the Japs continuously control the seas around the Malay Peninsula and Philippines? And if the newspapers are unable to secure this information, we should certainly hear about it from the editorial pages. Unfounded complacency is a fatal substitute for fact...