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Last week, the Tokyo Headquarters Press Corps was angered and surprised by a new shift in "policy." First sign of a change came when the London Daily Herald's Hugh Hessell Tiltman, who had criticized some Occupation policies, applied for round-trip orders to Malaya and the East Indies. He was told that, if he left the area of the Far East Command, he would lose his credentials and his family its quarters. He left anyway. Hitherto, correspondents had been allowed to leave the theater on reportorial assignments and re-enter without trouble...
Sound of Niagara. By last week, this peculiar state of mind had not only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara...
...Homer Smith, 52, of New York University, famed physiologist and explorer (Africa, Malaya), whose work has been based largely on studies of osmosis in fish; for fundamental discoveries about the connection between kidney disorders and heart disease...
Edgar Baker of TIME-LIFE International, publishers and distributors of our overseas editions, returned last week from a six months' business trip to the South Pacific, Malaya and India, where he experienced the usual quota of unexpected surprises and contradictions...
...which now allows only 23% of natural rubber to be used in tires, is relaxing its wartime restrictions far too slowly for Malaya. In the next 60 days they will be eased again. But the U.S. intends to keep enough controls so that at least 250,000 tons of synthetic rubber will be used annually, the minimum to keep the synthetic industry going. All this is a far cry from 1925, when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote...