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Tokyo Radio last week warned Manila residents to complete their air-raid shelters. Tokyo also announced (at least to the outside world) that Davao, the Philippines' second city, had been evacuated of civilians in anticipation of American landings. There were no landings at Davao last week, but in two other places the U.S. sprang forward again...
...boots. From behind the stilled forms of the factory machinery a score of German officers peered questioningly at him but he gave no sign. There was no motion around him save the wisps of smoke that curled up around his bowed head as he puffed pensively on a fat Manila cigar...
...believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then he coughed spasmodically. A hemorrhage began. When his wife, came, summoned from Mass, he waved her away to spare her the sight of his suffering. He was unconscious in a few minutes. In a few more, his dragging breathing stopped...
...accordingly. In the 19th Century, when they were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline from outside...
What I cannot understand is why you, with information at your disposal, failed to advise your readers of the desperate plight of our garrison stationed in Manila. If the powers at Washington did not see fit to send them reinforcements, we, the citizens of these United States, should have been advised the reason why. I cannot give utterance to my feelings of shame and degradation in realizing that we did so little to save these desperate and brave...