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...this war we must, I think, take care not to divide ourselves into color groups. The tide of feeling about color runs very high over in the Orient. Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, and others are sensitive to the danger point about their relation as colored peoples to white peoples. Many Americans do not realize this, but it is true, and we must recognize it or we may suffer for it severely. The Japanese are using our well-known race prejudice as one of their chief propaganda arguments against us. Everything must be done to educate Americans not to provide further fuel...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...
...yellow, high-hedged German Legation in Guatemala City, where Gestapo-man Christian Zinsser operated until he left for the Orient, has "no less than 14 short-wave receiving sets," houses two crack German flyers in charge of five airports-all within easy bombing distance of the Panama Canal...
Stand & Fight. The Allies were planning joint conferences and staff talks to plan a little grand strategy of their own. For the present they could only stand and fight to hold Singapore, to keep the Burma Road open, to maintain the U.S. life line to the Orient, to fight off any new attacks that came. For the present, Russia was helping more by attacking the German Army than it could by entering the war against Japan (see p. 14). If the European end of the Axis launched such an all-out attack in the Atlantic as the Japanese had launched...
Greatest medical center of the Orient, Peiping Union Medical College has been held in Japanese-occupied territory for more than four years, but its large staff of scientists still carries on remarkable research on Chinese diseases. Head of Peiping Union's Department of Medicine, which was founded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is Dr. Isadore Snapper, famed Dutch physician. Last week Dr. Snapper, now a prisoner in Peiping, published a tragic picture of health in occupied China (Chinese Lessons to Western Medicine; Interscience Press; $5.50). His chief points...