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...Japanese caught and tortured Sybil to extract information about the underground. At one point they tied her to a stake and suspended her daughter Dawn over a blazing fire. Dawn shouted: "Mummy, I love you very much!" In the family code it meant that Dawn would not talk and Sybil must not talk either. The Japanese halted the fire torture in time, but they invented others for Sybil: beating, branding, dripping water. By the time a British captain found her at war's end, her skull, jaw and spine had been broken, her legs temporarily paralyzed...
Sybil Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...
Cure? What to do about it? First, says Cleveland, N.A.M. should have a free election of top officers, and let the membership play a bigger role. It might then adopt a code of ethics "with an eye to something more than short-run profits...
...group whose membership is voluntary, Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...
...place was Valentia, Ireland, European terminus of Cyrus Fields' newly laid transatlantic cable. A young telegrapher named Joseph May heard an unfamiliar hum on his code receiver. He stumbled on the cause: a shaft of sunlight, streaming through the window, fell on an electrical resister and jammed his code receiver. When May passed his hand between the light and the resister, the hum stopped. But why? May decided, rightly and brightly, that the resister (or the selenium that coated it) must have what are now called photoelectric properties; i.e., that it could convert light values into electric values...