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Born in Osaka, Japan, Dooman lived in the Orient for over 30 years and is well steeped in the customs, manners, and reasoning of our enemy. He became a member of the United States Embassy at Tokyo and after many years of service rose to the post of Chief Consul in 1937, a position directly under Ambassador Joseph C. Grew...
...speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...
...extremely unlikely that the U.S. Government will start issuing passports for foreign pleasure travel until at least two years after the last shot has been fired. ... So there is no use getting excited ... at least so far as Europe is concerned. And the less said about the Orient the better...
Alexander also disclosed that a big British fleet was on its way to the Orient-a fleet powerful enough to cope with the whole Japanese Navy, if the latter should happen to get in the way. Almost as he spoke, the Jap radio at Singapore squeaked that 24 British warships had arrived in the Indian Ocean-a force which included four carriers and ten battleships...
...civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory...