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...Japs might be content for the present with drives at northern and northeastern Australia. If so, the U.S. and Australia would have time to amass land, air and naval forces in the south. But "to be content for the present" did not sound like the Japs of Indo-China, Manila, Malaya, Singapore, Burma and Java...
...honor-laden Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, first commander in the Philippines, there was only one honorable course. Douglas MacArthur reported that General Homma met the honorable death by hara-kiri in General MacArthur's own expansive apartment in the Manila Hotel...
...home, of a rooted life in his own land. The quality distinguished him and his colonial fellows from the imperial transients of other "colonies." It fired them to a fierce preparation, a planned thoroughness of resistance which the British in Burma and Malaya and dozing Americans in Honolulu and Manila patently lacked when the Japs first came. This was the quality, the mighty intangible, which Conrad Helfrich, the Indies' Lieut. Governor Hubertus van Mook and other Batavia spokesmen meant when they cried to their allies to stand with the Dutch, to risk everything and put everything into the defense...
...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...Washington, where pressure for reinforcements for Douglas MacArthur grew, military experts explained with weary patience that a relief force is out of the question. Transportation is the insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have...