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Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
Cheerful, dark-eyed Theo Meier had rescued his U.S.-made paints when the Japs swarmed in. He retreated with his two Balinese wives to a mountaintop chalet overlooking an amphitheater of verdant, terraced rice fields. When he needed money he sold a friend's watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink...
...chaplains had all been in war heaters and their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...
...grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English that creeps into most Far Eastern English-language papers.) Moreover, he intends to run his paper as long as he lives and will it to his second-in-command, F. Theo. Rogers, and to his staff. He doesn't think that either war with Japan or Philippines independence in 1946 will interfere with that plan...
...Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...