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Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications.
Goebbels even gloated over the execution of the six German saboteurs (TIME, Aug. 17). To the Herrenvolk this was supposed to mean that the U.S. had forfeited all rights to condemn Nazi executions of hundreds of Europeans, either without trial as suspected saboteurs, or as hostages.
Like every other naval job in his 39-year naval career, Planner Ghormley's program for battle was a model of carefully thought planning, astute execution, use of every tool he had within reach. This time Douglas MacArthur in Australia knew what was afoot, as he did not in...
Terror In Hong Kong. Men taken prisoner in Hong Kong reported that the invaders raped Chinese, Eurasian and white women, including three British nurses. Afterward the Japs bayoneted and burned the nurses. A group of 30 Maryknoll missionary priests was tied up, marched with British and Canadian soldiers to an...
The Job to Do. If Admiral Leahy gets the power that his title implies, he will have a tremendous job: he will frame strategic plans with the President, direct their execution, tie the military war effort of the U.S. into a coordinated whole, gear it with the grand plans of...