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...million words turned out to be about 8,000,000-enough to fill a half-dozen filing cabinets. They were the dispatches that some 80 TIME correspondents had filed from London during the blitz, from Manila as the Japanese struck, from Bataan before it fell, from Libya as Rommel lunged at Cairo, from battlefields in the Aleutians, in Burma, in Sicily, in Italy, in Russia, in the South Pacific...
Washington and Manila were in a fantastic tizzy. Some celestial observer, watching the frantic fumblings of the victors and the rise of a new Government in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS), might have thought that the Japs had dropped an atomic bomb on the U.S. Said a topflight U.S. admiral: "Here we had things neatly laid out and the war was going fine-then the damned Japs surrender and throw us into a hell of a stew...
...Beectory." Manila echoed as soldiers drove jeeps and trucks madly through the dusty streets, blowing horns, beating on fenders with iron pipe. Over the din sounded the shrill voices of children screaming: "Beectory .. . beectory...
Orders from Tokyo (Philippine Commonwealth-OSS-Warner) were found on Japanese soldiers who died in Manila's walled city. They were detailed instructions from Imperial Headquarters for "the systematic massacre" of the city's civilians, children and women as well as men. This short color film, the work of Marine Captain David C. Griffin, is the record of the execution of these orders...
...Manila, political observers wondered what would be the issue between President Sergio Osmeña and his rival, Senate President Manuel Roxas (TIME, June 11), in the first postwar presidential election. Last week the Philippine Press defined...