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...since). Neither the salary ($18,000 a year) nor the title (Field Marshal) bestowed on him by mercurial little President Manuel Quezon (who had surrendered his sword to MacArthur's father 40 years before) meant as much to him as the fact that the Philippines were a vital outpost of the U.S. defense...
...Dutch. The Japanese did not attack a single Netherlands outpost. But the Dutch knew there was no permanency to this, and they went straight to work. Part of the Dutch Air Force joined the British in Malaya. Dutch submarines sank four Japanese transports as they rushed 4,000 reinforcing troops to Cape Patani; next day the Dutch caught a tanker and a freighter. Just as they had been tough in negotiation, so now the Dutch of the Indies were proving determined in action...
Sundown (Wanger; United Artists). In East Africa, sundown is the best time of the day. It is quiet then; night is near; and there is nothing to do. There, in a lonely desert outpost, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Reginald Gardiner and other British colonials thwart a Nazi scheme to arm and rouse the natives, in ten reels of old-fashioned romanticadventure melodrama...
Silly sequence: weather-beaten old Harry Carey, cast as the kind of white trader he played in Trader Horn, ambles into the outpost, learns about the Nazi plot, and brain-waves: "We've got to set trap for trap...
...have not had far to look for examples of unjustifiable Jim Crowism. The Navy, which refuses to permit colored men to rise above table help and valets (and which has made Annapolis so unpleasant for any Negro appointed that none have ever graduated), is chalked up as a hopeless outpost of feudalism by even the most optimistic colored leaders. The Army has shown a few glimmers of mildly progressive intelligence. A token air force of 100 pilots is being organized at Tuskegee as an answer to the charge that Negroes are admitted only to the infantry. But the military branch...