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...lost a friend when the U.S.S. Houston went down in the great naval battle of the Java Sea: the sleek 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was a favorite; on her he had traveled 25,445 miles, taken four voyages...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
Joost Kiewiet de Jonge '41, Dutch astronomer who was drafted last winter by the Netherlands government in London, has successfully escaped from Java to Australia, news reaching Professor Bart J. Bok at the University Observatory revealed yesterday...
Last March the young telescopist left College and went to Canada, where he attended a flight training school in preparation for his post as pilot for the Dutch East Indies Air Force. He was transferred to Java late last summer, and remained there until he was forced to escape after the Japanese conquest...
...conference split up into four groups to study, respectively, the social, economic and political problems of the post-war world and the problem of the church's own position in that world.* Discussion waxed hot & heavy, with one notable silence: in a week when the Japs were taking Java, discussion of the war itself was practically taboo. Reason: The Federal Council felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church as such...