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After many months of glib discussion on the question of a Negro-White mixed regiment, it is about time for some official Harvard student action--action to speak louder than all the words the subject has thus far stimulated. Most Harvard students realize that the wide gap between the preachment and the practise of democracy in the Army must be bridged; a foundation of that bridge lies in the mixed regiment, which is, in turn, a foundation itself for future liberalism and better racial attitudes in a post-war United States. The steps of construction must be taken...
Last week reports told how on Guadalcanal a group of Japs of the 224th Infantry Regiment, veterans of China, Borneo and the Philippines, were trapped in a heavily wooded ravine. They could hear a U.S. loudspeaker across the way urging them in Japanese to surrender. At night they talked their situation over. They voted to fight on. But next morning Private Akiyoshi Hasamoto and some of his friends marched, hands up, to the U.S. lines and surrendered. To an interpreter Private Hasamoto said: ". . . Finally my feelings as a true Japanese soldier disappeared. ... I had nothing to lose by surrendering...
...training methods are both humorless and tireless. Major Harold Doud, who served six months in 1934-35 as an observer with the 7th Infantry Regiment at Kanazawa, found the life exhausting and looked forward to the regiment's first holiday. When it came, he found that the regiment did not let the holiday interfere with the regular day's work. Reveille was at 3 a.m., and before the usual breakfast time the men had worshipped dead Japanese in three separate ceremonies, dueled with bayonets, eaten some dried flounder, shouted "Banzai!" and marched up & down a mountain. Then they...
...Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
...Cadet Lieutenant in last year's ROTC regiment, Lt. Reilly was chairman of the Dudley House Committee and a leader in House athletics, and lived in Jamaica Plain. He had been at his first post, Camp Pickett, Virginia, only two weeks when orders for Africa came through...