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...final, climactic attack would be directed against the center of U.S. Pacific trade, San Francisco. General Lea expected Japanese landings in Bodega Bay to the north and Monterey Bay to the south of the city, then converging attacks...
...Soldiers at Santa Cruz, Monterey and Carmel evacuated 1,000 householders along a 40-mile stretch of coast, sent them inland for safety...
Mustached, polished Major Griffin, World War I infantry captain and D.S.C. man, is the wealthy publisher of the Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula Herald and president of Monterey Peninsula Broadcasting Co. World traveler and alarmed observer of the events of the '303 in Europe, he realized that one defect in army morale was that most soldiers did not appreciate how modern wars occur, did not really understand why they might have to fight...
...When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...