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Florence Horn is a small, sapient Connecticut Yankee quietly outraged by the U. S. citizen who places Manila in Cuba. Late in 1939 she took her journalistic acumen and a social conscience to the little-known Commonwealth of the Philippines, within three months turned the polyglot, 7,091-isle archipelago inside out gathering research for a FORTUNE article. Orphans of the Pacific is the byproduct...
...country of poor people. . . . They grouse continually about petty inconveniences, and berate the miserable natives bitterly and endlessly. Yet when they go home to the States on leave for a visit they are out of joint there too. They are only too anxious to return to the despised Manila...
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...Stage. At almost the same moment The Netherlands East Indies and Australia got their wind up. From Batavia orders went out for Dutch ships to put into the nearest friendly port; two of them rushed to Manila and dropped anchor. In Australia Acting Prime Minister Arthur William Fadden called a meeting of the Advisory War Council and then issued a warning to the country: "The war has moved into a new stage of the utmost gravity...
...three logical attack points on the island, Manila Bay is the most obvious. Therefore it is the most heavily fortified. Centre of its fortification is the island of Corregidor. Americans in Manila boast that Corregidor is the most strongly fortified point in the world, stouter than Gibraltar or Blakan Mati, Britain's strong point at Singapore. But, unlike Blakan Mati, which is part of a defense organized in depth, Corregidor, like Gibraltar, stands alone. If an enemy captured it, he would have the works...