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MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
Captain Griffin's record shows the 80% destruction of "the greatest Christian city in the Orient." It shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less...
...Road, across 1,750 miles of some of the world's toughest jungles and mountains, made tougher by Japanese gun fire. Said the New York Times: "Whether or not swift communication makes for swift understanding one doesn't know. The line may carry angry words. . . . But the Orient ... is shrinking, and this is one of the shrinkages...
Desperate Conditions. Some of you have traveled in the Orient and you remember your first glimpse of it. The poverty, the overcrowding, the dirt, the squalor, the disease were all right out there in full view; and your first reaction was: "Why, these people are living almost like animals. Their condition is hopeless." It was just about all you could take under ordinary circumstances, wasn't it? How much worse after almost eight years of war and invasion...
...three days the filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...