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Shortly before noon, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, left his headquarters on the stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
These voices are what the Tokyo radio chiefly means when it warns Japan against propaganda from Chungking. Tokyo's great daily Nichi Nichi has even gone so far as to admit that XGOY's Japanese programs "were well thought out and executed, but are, of course, voices crying in the wilderness...
...newspapers slanting their editorial policy for the gang are the Nichi Nichi and the Kokumin, the latter edited by a Johns Hopkins University graduate, Hitoshi Tanaka. I've known him a decade. The entire crowd started early in the formation of a now famous Tanaka memorial which proclaimed Japan's destiny in Asia; a total political, economic and military hegemony of the Far East...
...nerves" last week. With Winston Churchill talking in Washington, Anthony Eden talking in Moscow and Franklin Roosevelt hinting of ominous U.S. Navy movements (see p. 11), the Allies could lay claim to their own major nerve strategies. Responsively, the Rome radio reported that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi declared that "Mr. Antony Eden" would soon move on from Moscow to Chungking...
...Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them to be mighty careful...