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...Hong Kong to meet a growing threat. They sent Canadian and British troops, new supplies and artillery. But when the Japanese struck, Hong Kong was still far from ready. Too many men were there to surrender without battle, too few to do more than add a brave and futile postscript to a colorful century of history...
...Postscript: the Germans recaptured the Britons, released the Italians; the British then captured everybody...
...story in question was in the nature of a postscript to a number of longer articles (TIME, Nov. 7, 1938; Jan. 9, 1939; Feb. 16, 1939; Feb. 19, 1940; July 29, 1940; Dec. 2, 1940; June 2, 1941; Oct. 20, 1941), in which TIME had recognized President Aguirre as "an honest friend of the working man" and had given him repeated credit for his accomplishments made in the face of a series of political crises. It reported the latest developments, and since President Roosevelt's attack a very careful recheck through many sources has confirmed the accuracy of every...
Meanwhile the hooraw had proved embarrassing not only to Ben Lear but to the 110th and the Army. Last week in Olympia, Wash., soldiers from Fort Lewis tossed out mash notes to girls ("Please write to this lonely soldier," etc.) tagged with the postscript: "Don't tell Lieut. General Ben Lear." From 70 noncoms of the 250th Coast Artillery went a challenge to the 110th to a 15-mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing...
...boys did not much want to see PS 103. This postscript to loving messages, when deciphered, meant: "I would be glad if you would send some money...