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...Philip B. Lorenz (TIME Letters, Dec. 7), in commenting on General McNair's words . . . advances a disturbing philosophy, when he says: "In the biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...
...suppose the least Christmasy Christmas of all will be George Johnston's in New Guinea. Steamy jungles, evil-smelling swamps and man-high kunai grass are no substitutes for holly wreaths, nor the whine of Jap bullets for jingle bells, as most all the men out there will tell you (you'll find Johnston's story on Christmas with General MacArthur's men in Buna on page...
...sent a package, or at least a letter, to a man in uniform; hardly a thoughtful man or woman who would not wonder what it might be like to spend Christmas in a tank on the road to Bizerte or perched in a palm tree in New Guinea...
...Battle for Buna, which many observers had thought would be a pushover, was developing last week into a major struggle for control of New Guinea. It was being fought as fiercely as any battle on Guadalcanal. Allied casualties, mostly wounded, mounted steadily and piles of Jap corpses rotted in the jungles, in the swamps and on the beaches...
...Guinea, P-38s were strafing the hard-pressed Japs, meeting some Japanese Zeros (results unannounced...