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Window on a Nightmare. From 1937 to 1941, Editor Gayn's window in Shang hai's International Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...
...England have repeatedly made the point that the G.I. Joes over there behave better than their fathers did in 1917-18. Yet, among so many, there must always be a few who go A.W.O.L., who impersonate officers, who engage in petty larceny ; and an even smaller minority who commit rape or murder. The total of convictions obtained against G.I. felons up to last week by the Provost Marshal's Office in England is relatively small: about...
...materializes, he predicted, it will be known in history as "the Term of Defeat and Frustration." The once great and powerful Democratic Party, he cried, has been reduced by "one-man control" to "hopeless impotency." "It no longer has the inclination or the will to resist those who would rape it. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic. One man will name its candidate for President, its candidate for Vice President, and write its platform, just as was done...
Nowadays, U.S. troops in England even kid one another about their medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2,000,000 decorations had been bestowed on Soviet heroes. The Rus-sian Army has seen a lot more fighting than the U.S. Army, but in proportion to estimated size, this is at least eight times as much kudos as the U.S. Army has distributed...
...Biggest increases: auto theft (up 11.4%); rape...