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...other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
Actually, WPB may be painting the picture blacker than it really is. Its dire predictions are based on the still unproved belief that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...
...designers to omit extras, come up with a bomber stripped to absolute essentials. The B-32s in action last week were part of General MacArthur's air forces which made their third attack in seven days on Shanghai, ranged from Japan and Korea to the Gulf of Siam...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon, is a digest and condensation of the writings of Anna Leonowens, an English officer's widow who in 1862 was hired to teach English to the Siamese monarch's numerous wives and children. Always interesting and sometimes charming, it is surprisingly unsensational for a story of life in a harem...