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Annalee Jacoby, packing her belongings at the Press Hostel in Chungking to follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
...when Carl Mydans first walked through the streets of Tokyo he must have thought many times of the 21 months of "constant, oozing fear" he and his wife Shelley spent as prisoners of the Japs after their capture in Manila...
Still marveling, he flew to Manila and marveled again: as the plane approached the city, the pilot circled over the hundreds of ships in the harbor, the vast supply dumps, the great runways at Nichols Field. When the plane landed, a crowd which had waited for hours burst past MPs to surround its famous passenger...
...were of Japanese origin. Short thought one way to avoid stirring up the population was to betray no anxiety, which alerts and maneuvers might have done. This, in spite of the fact that Honolulu newspapers at the time were screaming: "JAPANESE MAY STRIKE, OVER WEEKEND"-"U.S. ARMY ALERTED IN MANILA, SINGAPORE MOBILIZING AS WAR TENSION GROWS"-"PACIFIC ZERO HOUR NEAR...
Uncle Harry (George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines; TIME, Aug. 27)Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...