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These were just a few of the promotions and honors that grow in significance each day Bataan continues to withstand the Jap's assaults. Two were in a class by themselves: Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey ("Sandy") Nininger Jr., posthumously honored with World War II's first Congressional Medal of Honor for "intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" (TIME, Feb. 9), and Captain Colin P. Kelly (TIME, Dec. 22), who was awarded a posthumous D.S.C...
Singapore has been an Asiatic paradise for Occidentals and it was built to withstand attack from the sea. Singapore Harbor on the seaward side is protected by the strongly fortified islands of Brani, Blakang Mati, East St. John. Heavy and light guns perch atop the island's 1,000 hills. Location of the biggest guns of all, the 18-inchers, is a secret, but they are probably at the Changi entrance to Johore Strait. Around the entire island on all the beaches there are barbed-wire entanglements with concrete pillboxes at intervals...
...better prepared to withstand siege than the city itself. In its bombproof underground vaults are vast quantities of fuel, mines, shells. In the cold-storage sheds there is enough food for all the officers and men of the British Far Eastern Fleet for several months. All the buildings are solidly constructed and every workshop is safe against bomb blast and splinters...
...power given us the sacred rights of humanity." This time the issue of pacifism was sidestepped in the interest of unity, and Christian participation in the war is not included among the 13 points with which the message closes. Most significant of these 13 points are: > "To withstand any propaganda of hatred or revenge and to refuse it the sanction of religion." > "To manifest Christian good will toward those among us whose origin was in nations with which our country is now at war." > "To strive for national policies in conformity with the will of God, rather than to seek...
Australia what Hawaii is to the U.S. Japanese occupation of Singapore would open Australia to the danger of invasion. With most, and the best of Australia's equipped Army fighting Britain's desert battles, the smallest continent is in no comfortable position to withstand a Japanese onslaught...