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...other members of the TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China was invaded...
...newspaper trumpeted the campaign, treated it liberally in its news columns. There were prizes for those bringing in the most scrap; every movie theater in the State had at least one scrap matinee. On public golf courses and tennis courts, scrap paid greens and court fees; there were scrap trap shoots and scrap horseshoe meets. Airplanes made surveys of scrap piles, dropped leaflets to farmers. Worshippers brought scrap to churches, children became "scrap commandos." For three weeks the World-Herald, which has a monopoly in Omaha and blankets the State (circulation 185,632), talked of almost nothing but scrap...
...trap, baited with cynical confidence that a U.S. merchant ship would observe the law of the sea and relay a distress signal, thereby revealing her position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...
...deceptively soft voice: "To him who knows it, the desert can be a fortress; to him who does not, it can be a deathtrap." From London last week came a report that enemy planes had attacked his plane, shot him down. In the skies over the desert the trap had closed on Strafer Gott...
...second part is a tentative suggestion of policies which may implement the new creed. These policies reflect a British point of view, but are equally applicable to the other United Nations. Professor Carr has wisely avoided the trap of laying down iron-bound organizational rules at the present time; instead, he has described the task to be faced and one way of getting at it. Few of these proposals can be termed startlingly new, but the manner of presentation is one of the few cogent and complete systems of reconstruction yet devised...