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...little corner of made-in-Japan hell on Bataan Peninsula, Douglas MacArthur's American-Filipino Army clung grimly to the last U.S. soil on Luzon. The Jap charged and charged again. He was thrown back. Through the jungles he filtered by squads and smaller groups. Usually he came to an ugly end, but often he did plenty of damage before he died...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
...three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish face, was lettered simply JEWS&151;LICE&151;SPOTTED TYPHUS. At the same time the Nazis were said to be pressing into service all available Jewish...
...more: in the last 50 miles north of the island are the water reservoirs of the city. These have to be held. Hong Kong eventually fell for lack of water. Either the Aussies must give the Jap his jippo above those reservoirs, or Singapore would catch the Japanese for hell...
After he reached Honolulu, U Saw had reason to know the Japanese devils better than ever. He had barely left his Clipper, when Japanese dive-bombers screeched down on Pearl Harbor. It may have been the hell of that Sunday morning that tipped the scales in Japan's favor...