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There were bright spots in the picture, however. In his weekend communique Douglas MacArthur included the dramatic story of non-Christian Igorot native tribesmen who, in an offensive over rough, matted terrain, mounted U.S. tanks like so many half-nude jockeys to direct American drivers inside. "When the attack was over," said the General, "the remnants of the tanks and of the Igorots were still there, but the 20th Japanese Infantry Regiment was completely annihilated. . . . When you tell that story, stand in tribute to those gallant Igorots...
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...
Jacala persuaded 20 fellow tribesmen to return to Darwin. For 40 days they traveled, came at last to the movie theater with the neon sign, paid and entered. On a shiny screen, a white man was hugging and kissing a white woman. Jacala & friends disgusted, stalked out, walked 40 days home again...
...made good its annual treaty obligations to Indian tribes of the Six Nations. In Salamanca, N.Y., Indian Agent Charles H. Berry started distribution of $4,500 in cash and calico to 5,085 Senecas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas and Oneidas. (The Mohawks never signed the treaty, get nothing.) New York tribesmen always take their share in calico. This year they find themselves shortchanged. Thanks to inflation, they get only three yards of calico apiece, instead of the five yards each got last year...
Newsman Weller stood near by when Drummer Carrington spotted a hippopotamus' nose above the muddy Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...