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...George Whittington, of the Australian Army's 2/10th Battalion, was one of more than 500,000 men from his country and New Zealand who traveled overseas to fight in World War II. The sacrifices they made are chastening to recount: Australia lost nearly 34,000 killed; New Zealand's 12,000 toll was the highest per head of population of any Commonwealth nation - at 6,700 per million, more than Britain's 5,100 or Australia...
...took frightful risks to help turn Churchill's tide. All over the islands, natives buried any resentment of their colonial masters to serve and die with them. The enduring image of the New Guinea campaign is the photograph opposite, taken by New Zealander George Silk. It shows Private Whittington being led to a field hospital by one of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, Orokaiva villager Raphael Oembari, on Christmas Day, 1942. The Australian Department of Information, which employed Silk as a combat photographer, suppressed the photo as potentially damaging to morale, but Silk disagreed, finding it profoundly moving...
...power, although knowledge of the war's outcome perhaps dulls our understanding of official concerns about its publication. Where now we see resilience, courage, tenderness and indomitable spirit, at the desperate height of the war few would have read in it the signs of an Allied victory. Whittington, like so many of his young comrades, did not return from New Guinea. We owe him, and all of them, a moment of reflection, and a silent prayer of thanks...
...costly publicity stunt and a shameless boondoggle at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to cope with urgent public needs. Many will insist on sympathetic but unthinking cheerleading for the space program, but we have to come up with a leaner, fitter and more successful plan. JUSTIN WHITTINGTON Washington...
Elizabeth Clear, a 64-year-old housewife, had long been a 30-a-day smoker. But it still came as a shock when doctors running tests for a hiatus hernia at London's Whittington Hospital found something much more serious - lung cancer. And when consultant Siow Ming Lee proposed enrolling her in a trial using thalidomide to treat the disease, she got an even bigger shock. "That was the drug that damaged the children, wasn't it?" she asked. Despite her initial misgivings, she's now pleased she was given thalidomide - her cancer has been in remission for nearly...