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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1941
ANNIVERSARIES
On the 7th day of May, 1942, the Unit
ed States fleet dished out a government
issue in the form of a naval defeat to the
Japanese navy in the Coral Sea, when
21 of their naval vessels were either
sunk or damaged beyond repair and left
in a sinking condition, with the balance
of the Jap fleet on the run.
But farther to the north a small island
fort had, on the previous day, May 6th,
1942, surrendered to the Japanese in
vaders.
Corregidor will never be forgotten.
On that fateful day, the meagre report
came through from the headquarters of
General Jonathan Wainwright, who was
in command of Corregidor and ether
Manila Bay forts which fell to the Japs,
that a landing attack was started across
the narrow stretch of water between Ba
taan Peninsula and the “Rock, ’ the tiny
fortified island.
Fighting on Bataan ceased a month
earlier.
Those valiant defenders of the Philip
pines; to the dead, we can say if we will,
they have not died in vain; but to the
living, we must again pledge with all
we have, to continue and to increase our
efforts in their behalf, that we may still
be in time to save them from a much
more horrible fate than that, of being
wounded, or killed in action.
Word filters through various and sun
dry channels of the deaths of many of
the brave heroes of Bataan and Correg
idor, from disease, malnutrition or physi
cal cruelty, inflicted by their Japanese
captors. We must hurry in order to give
at least some of them the barest chance of
survival. We must not allow ourselves
to become complacent, to relax our ener
gies, or to neglect our work. We can
not be true to our boys who fell at Ba
taan and Corregidor, unless we increase
our efforts for even greater production
to project our efforts into the very
front lines.
We are all in this fight for all we have
and all we hold dear, and we must re
member that the blood and sacrifice of
those at the front is paying for our fu
ture. Let us help in some small way, in
addition to our present efforts, to relieve
the situation earlier if possible.
There is one thing with which we will
agree and that is that every minute we
allow them to remain captives, beyond
the time absolutely necessary, will be a
blot against those remaining at home
Those who could have helped to bring
them home to health and happiness
which they more than ever deserve.
We must not forget Corregidor!
SINKING THE U-BOATS
The safety of our supply lines across
the Atlantic Ocean is of paramount im
portance on the eve of the Anglo-Amer
ican offensive against Nazi Europe, Sec
rtary of.the Navy Frank Knox declared
at a news conference recently.
It is intresting to note that the cam
paign against the U-boats has been high
j ly successful, with losses of merchant
| ships now “among the lowest figures for
any period of the whole war.”
President Roosevelt and Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill, in a joint state
ment a few months ago said:
“The German claims should, as usual,
be ignored, as they are grossly exagger
ated and issued purely for propaganda
purposes.”
Knox also recently reported that more
U-boats were destroyed in March than
in February despite the limited oppor
tunities to make such attacks. Appar
ently, the caution exercised by the U.
boat commanders is more than equalled
by the rlentless pressure of our surface j
forces.—(Fairbanks News-Miner).
THE NAZI STRATEGY
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in a usual
statement recently reiterated the strat
egy of the Naval high command in at
tempting to defeat Japan.
The Admiral says that his aim is to
move across the Pacific and set up air
and sea bases in China, so that Ameri- i
can air and ground forces can operate
against Japan.
This officer does not expect the defeat
of Japan to come about through sea ac- *
tion alone. Once air bases are firmly !
planted on Chinese soil he believes that
Japan can be bombed like Germany is
being bombed.—(Fairbanks News-Min
er).
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
‘*WHAT BECAME OF ANNA
BOLTON," by Louis Bromfield
(Harpers: $2.50)
Although his “Mrs. Parking
ton” has not yet disappeared from
the book stores, Louis Bromfield
is ready with another novel, and
therefore with another demonstra
tion of the novelist’s technique
such as only he and Somerse*
Maugham can make, these days.
This is not Mr. Bromfield’s best
novel; it was, I think, serialized
in one of the slick magazines last
year, and it shows some signs of
| it.
But it is a fine novel, and it
can be taken as a model of a cer
tain type of construction. One of
the passions of beginning novel-1
ists seems to be their uncontrol
lable desire to tell their story |
“differently”, a desire that leads ’
them in*o a mess of flashbacks, j
prveiews and the like, and leads
their readers into a slow case of
literary heeby-jeebies. “What Be
came of Anna Bolton” will show
them the trick.
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This is a simple story, based on
a simple idea taken from the pub
lic domain. Anna is a shanty
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Irish girl from an Ohio river town
who had all the requisites for
success excepting distinguished
birth. She married young (be
cause she ‘‘got caught”) and she
loved her husband and their baby
dearly and lost both. She became
a secretary, married her fabulous
ly rich boss, and he died with
dispatch and small fuss four years
later. Anna was left with a mil
lion a year in the ’thirties, when*
most of us were worried about the
rent. She wanted to ‘‘show”
Lewisburg, her home town.
So in New York she made the
acquaintance of a well-born, and
entirely indigent woman of great
good taste and understanding,
and with her as companion, she'
stormed the frenetic pre-war so
ciety of Europe. She was caught
in France when the Germans ad
vanced, she tried to escape to the
south in her Rolls Royce, and the
road was machine-gunned by the
“conquerors”. That was when
the miracle came.
Anna disappeared from the
smart world, and what she did
you must let Mr. Bromfield tell
you. I was as interested in the;
manner of telling as in the story I
itself. This is saying quite a lot,
for the last third of the novel is
Mr. Bromfield at his best.
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