Word: pearle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea is made, however, that TIME readers sympathize with rather than sneer at us for this new phenomenon in Philippine life, brought about by Japanese occupation. Before Pearl Harbor, criminality in the Philippines was no worse than in the U.S. and in other countries. After the American surrender at Corregidor, Filipino character . . . had the ruggedness to choose continuance of resistance against the Japs either by guile or by force, in the hills and in the valleys, to make General MacArthur's promised return come sooner, less costly in American lives...
...national agoraphobia after World War I and Franklin Roosevelt's effort to buy a way out of World War II with Lend-Lease were only zigzags in the broad U.S. policy. F.D.R. understood that when, before Pearl Harbor, he told Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal...
...Pacific, the admirals wanted to know how Pearl Harbor would fare if an enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
...there are only 75 fighter planes -many obsolete or obsolescent. The Army has no night fighters, the Navy only a handful. Half the radar stations are useless because there are not enough men to operate them. There are only two antiaircraft battalions operating with modern (radar) fire control near Pearl Harbor...
Died. John Benjamin Powell, 60, veteran newsman, prewar editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review and managing director of the China Press; of a heart attack, just after making a speech warning the U.S. against a resurgent Asia; in Washington. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese threw Editor Powell into a heatless Shanghai cell, where he developed gangrene and beriberi, lost 70 of his 160 pounds, eventually lost parts of both feet...