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...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
...turned to the driver of my carabao cart, a sturdy Filipino wood cutter named Panteleon Manahan...
...salvation of the East, and after a day of forking dung and tending the cattle he would sit down at the noisy living-room table and calmly work on his translation into Chinese of The Pilgrim's Progress. Or he might hitch up the horse to the ramshackle cart and jolt off over the moors to set a farmer's broken leg. Sundays, he often preached in a neighboring church...
...Commander had tooled his airplane over Rangoon, and had seen no enemy activity. Warily, he peeped at the big Japanese airfield at Mingaladon. It was empty. So he landed. By foot and by cart, he made his way the twelve miles into Rangoon, there found a Union Jack flying over a jail where 1,400 British, U.S. and Indian war prisoners were quartered. The Japanese, who had occupied the big Burmese port since the fourth month of the Pacific war, had fled...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...