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Cheerful, dark-eyed Theo Meier had rescued his U.S.-made paints when the Japs swarmed in. He retreated with his two Balinese wives to a mountaintop chalet overlooking an amphitheater of verdant, terraced rice fields. When he needed money he sold a friend's watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink...
During the three days of their fourth retreat last week, they followed "a careful pattern of devotion," manual work, discussion and meditation. In the mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...
Here on this mountaintop in the sun is the end of the long campaign. Not even Hollywood could have written it better. The 7,500-ft. mountain over there that the Japs hold is called Huilungshan and it is on the border of China. On the other side is Burma. Chinese soldiers are going to take that mountain and pierce the blockade of China...
...mountaintop had been reached. This turning point would affect the lives of all Americans next year...
...Mountaintop. One simple fact caused this confusion : while the great war itself has not been won, the American production war has. The great bottlenecks of the past are now so many shards of glass. The arsenal of democracy has be come one long, clanging assembly line, throwing off the weapons of death in unbelievable quantities. This achievement, much doubted, often hobbled by incompetence and inefficiency, is now a great fact of history. Some of the figures...