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...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
Aside from the short-lived flurry attending the quiet arrest of Karl Lange, Harvard so far in this war has produced no excitement like that caused by former German instructor Eric Muenter, who tried to stop World War 1 single-handed. The sensational career of this misguided patriot included poisoning his wife, shooting J.P. Morgan, trying to blow up the Capitol, and plotting to destroy giant munitions transports...
Victorious As Ever. Pacing the enemy south was the Ever-Victorious Fifth. Every Japanese patriot long since learned about the Ever-Victorious Fifth; now the Allies were learning the hard way. Battle laurels of Japan's crack Fifth Division go back to the Russo-Japanese War. Once mummy-faced Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki himself commanded it. It had smacked the Chinese at the battle of Nankow Pass in 1937, sacked Taiyiian, fought at Süchow. It had spearheaded the spectacular Japanese drive on Nanning...
...Some misguided Washington patriot, unable to get at the Japs, emulated the Father of his Country and chopped down four of the lovely Japanese cherry trees along Washington's Tidal Basin...
Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy...