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...Philippines the Japs burned to the ground the national library at Manila, ordered expunged from all textbooks any mention of the U.S., Great Britain, democracy or Anglo-Saxon culture. Eight Filipinos were executed for printing and distributing anti-Japanese pamphlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Pangs of Empire | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...From the Anglo-Saxon word for bramblebush, lieope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elixir of Hips | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Though 450 I.R.A.s are in concentration camps and 153 serving prison sentences, the Saxons and the pro-Saxon Gaels had the devil's own job cutting the "pipeline" connecting Eire with Northern Ireland. Fortnight ago in Dublin they jailed (for seven years) piccolo-playing Anthony Deery, whose piccolo, the peelers found, was strangely mute, being stuffed with code-scribbled cigaret papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ERIE: Quiet Anniversary | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...anticipate an Anglo-Saxon bloc as a natural consequence of race, heritage and cultural background," Karpovich said. "Soviet relations will be with this whole bloc. Neither bloc will get its own way completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin, Karpovich Expect U. S., Russia to Cooperate | 2/25/1942 | See Source »

Other Moslems who interested the Nazis were the wild, proud Afghan tribesmen on the western borders of India. Poetic handbills printed in the Pushtu, Urdu, and Brahui languages urged the tribesmen to a jihad (holy war) "to strike off the Anglo-Saxon yoke," promised them heaping banquets and succulent maidens in the soft lands of India. Berlin proclaimed the "independence of India" from the Hotel Kaiserhop, relayed applause for the proclamation from "204 Hindu nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle of Babble | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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