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...Last week Domei flooded Argentine editors with accounts of the first anniversary of Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Filipino quisling, Jorge B. Vargas, chief of the Civil Administration of the islands, steered another Japanese train over a verbal crater. Said he: "One year has passed like a dream. . . . Manila is not what it was. Not only does it display its crown of metropolis; it also is the market place and vitalizer of the Philippines, reuniting constituent qualities of its idiosyncracy. It is this spiritual idiosyncracy which constitutes the basis for Filipinos' return to their traditions as Orientals after...
...Jimmy Byrnes's staff consists of but three others: Donald Russell, his onetime law partner in Spartanburg, ex-Washington Reporter Samuel Lubell, and corpulent Office Secretary Edward Prichard.) At 7 o'clock the White House car takes Jimmy Byrnes home for dinner; usually he takes a brown Manila paper envelope full of reports with him. Almost his only relaxation is walking his wire-haired fox terrier, Whiskers, along Washington's tree-lined streets at night...
...later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably not reached his wife Margaret, who is still interned in Manila. With the death of Don Keiser, Army men believed the title of youngest colonel passed to Richard H. Carmichael, 29, commander of the 19th Group (TIME, Dec. 7), promoted last month following his return...
Pogue believes the answer is reasonable freedom of the air. For like many another air-minded expert he knows that the shortest route from Washington to Manila is not across the Pacific, but passes over the Great Lakes to Canada, on to Alaska, then down the coast of Siberia. He knows, too, that the air oceans are not bounded by ocean shorelines; that European planes will someday want to fly over U.S. territory direct to Chicago from London, just as U.S. air transports may want to take off from St. Louis for Cairo and way ports...
Bearded Toyama's Black Dragon headquarters for years sheltered revolutionaries and murderers from other lands. Mr. Byas should recall instantly the haven given to Ricarte of the Philippines, the man who returned to Manila early this year to follow up Japanese occupation of the islands. Not to be overlooked are two Hindus, both married to Japanese, and their maintenance underwritten by Toyama and his followers. They are Rash Behari Bose, and K. Sabarwal, leaders of many mass meetings where Japanese-inspired anti-England haranging was engineered...