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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands nor the job were new to McNutt, but both had changed immeasurably since his prewar term (1937-39) as U.S. High Commissioner. The ruins of Philippine economy were almost as visible as the ghastly wreckage of Manila. Business was virtually paralyzed, black markets had shot prices out of sight, and a confusion of currencies- prewar money, guerrilla money, invasion money - complicated all trading. Filipinos stood sullenly by without credit while the old Spanish business families and the Chinese merchants did the best they could with what opportunities they could find...
...Such estimates about the time required before another nation would be ready to use atomic bombs are not so important as at first sight they seem. year basis. They also insisted that the maximum period of service for the new draftees be fifteen months...
Terror in the Streets. Widows told of drunken Japanese soldiers leading their husbands and sons out to be killed. Witness after witness described bayonetings, shootings, the sight of singing, drunken Japanese throwing grenades, setting fires, defiling bodies...
...local boy named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero had to be viewed in exceedingly unheroic surroundings...
...degradation of moral standards characterized by increasing selfishness . . . more or less proportional to the degree of undernutrition. . . . Even among those not grossly undernourished, there was a blunting of sensitivity to scenes of cruelty and death. Children who had grown up in concentration camps were almost unmoved by the sight of these horrors...