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...Defense Regulations (which allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
...good general likes to leave his men in peril. And Douglas MacArthur had to leave such men as Captain Jesus Villamor, who routed 54 Japanese planes with his squadron of six (TIME, Dec. 22), grenade-throwing old Joe Longknife, profane Lieut. Roland Sauinier, footballer-sniper Corporal Peter Flame (TIME, Mar. 9). He had to leave men who, with him, had met, stopped and beaten four Japs for every soldier in the U.S. and Philippine forces; who had survived the crushing days when it seemed that no aid would ever come from the U.S.; whose fortitude had driven one Japanese commander...
...very quick in knocking the everlasting daylights out of Japan, and Hearst began to do a series in his column on the history of Japan. Said the man who once thundered against the "Yellow Peril": White men had taught the Japs the "mysterious medicine" of firearms. His moral: "And now, friends and fellow citizens, we 'barbarians' are being given a taste of our own 'mysterious medicine' by the Japanese-the just reward for exploiting them...
...spent their lives on U.S. soil -farmers who tilled the rich brown loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast...
...this week faces its bitterest defeat since 1814: the loss of all the southwest Pacific except Australia. And Australia is in peril. If Java falls, if the United Nations lose their last bases within striking distance of the Japanese, what kind of war can the U.S. then wage in the Pacific...