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...peacetime Huene was a great traveler -to Africa, Indo-China, Bali, Mexico. Until the Germans confiscated it, he had a house in Hammamet, near Tunis. Now he contents himself with a cottage at Glen Cove, Long Island, amiably decorated with batik, leopardskins and rattan furniture. He wants to do a lot more archeological photography, especially of half-obliterated ruins from the vantage point of a balloon...
Hart had deployed his Asiatic Fleet as far south as Borneo before the war began. He contends it would have been "footless" to bring his destroyers and cruisers into Luzon waters after control of the air had been lost. Twice-at Balikpapan and Bali -the Asiatic Fleet stalled the Jap drive southward, but (after Hart was relieved) "disaster soon followed and in the end we lost heavily-the Houston [cruiser], Pillsbury, Edsall and Pope [destroyers] were all lost in surface ship action at sea under circumstances about which we know little . . . yes, ships were lost, but it was not footless...
...Margaret Mead, speaking on "The Functioning of American Character in Total War," will highlight the third Forum lecture tomorrow night in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock. Dr. Mead, who has made numerous trips to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali, is an authority on the relationship between character structure and social forms and is now relating her studies on compact, stable societies to American society...
...before but he always came back for more, because he always had more reserves close by than the United Nations in the south Pacific could lay their hands on. So it was after the Battle of Macassar Strait (TIME, Feb. 2). And so it was after the Battle of Bali, when he took another shellacking. He always got where he was headed...
...Pearl Harbor there was only one world to U.S. citizens. The world, the only world that Americans believed in or cared about, was the U.S. The rest of mankind was in an American sense, unreal. The American might-and did-throng the tourist spots like London and Paris, "discover" Bali or the Dalmatian Coast, but he could never quite believe that these outlandish foreign parts could have a real connection with his world...