Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from bombed and suddenly excited Port Moresby, came a strange tale about Finschhafen. According to the story, the Japs at Finschhafen had found guides to lead them through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...
...Department got most of this tale from the Brazilian-born son of a Japanese. Whether or not the tale had grown taller in the telling, Brazil obviously had good reason to be careful about her 186,000 Japanese inhabitants...
When the Argentine merchantman Rio Salado was warped to wharf in Buenos Aires recently, her crew had a tale to tell: on her voyage from New York, the ship had been stopped five separate times by Axis submarines. Once her neutral Argentine markings were proved genuine, she had been allowed to proceed unmolested...
...combination of the talents of Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard and Jack Benny would certainly indicate that a highly palatable movie is in order. "To Be Or Not To Be" attempts to be a delightful and implausible tale of intrigue, spies, Gestapo and such, moulded about the tragic downfall of Poland in 1939. Like Charlie Chaplin's ill-fated "The Great Dictator" its humor is based on ridiculing Hitler and the overly efficient machinations of the Gestapo. Whether the current film is your dish or not depends upon your ability to laugh at situations founded on material which is essentially tragedy...
...while the submarine was submerged is probably a myth, the one about the draftee who was pelted with eggs has not yet received official denial. Apparently all went well until one morning when he was accosted by a delegation of his comrades who said, "A Harvard men, eh?" This tale even frightened a few of the local R.O.T.C...