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WASHINGTON —Thousands of determined worn t>. j
eager to don the WAAC uniform, are driving WA C
officials wacky. The campai n for enlistments in *
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps has succeeded too
well. Major Oveta Culp Hobby and her chief lieuten-;
ants, Mrs. Arthur Woods and Mrs. Genevieve Forbes!
i Herrick, have a bear by the tail and they know it.
Sad truth is that there cannot be more than 500
WAAC officer-candidates taken in now. No “auxiliar
ies,” that is, non-officer WAAC’s, can be recruited until
the officers have been trained, possibly around Sep
tember 15. The greatest number of WAAC’s that can
be taken in this year is estimated at 25,000, and al! of
these will be subjected to a minimum of four weeks’
training. This leaves some 275,000 disappointed voird
be W A AC's out of an estimated registraton of 300 000
Toughest job of all falls upon the chief recruiting
officers in the nine Army Corps areas. It is their job
to sort out the WAAC registrants and select the lucky
women. Those chosen then must face a series of stiff
aptitude tests and physical examinations before they
are finally inducted.
Captured Jap Sword
It looks as if the sulphuric personal relations between
Philippine President Quezon and Philippine High Com
missioner Francis Eayer will have to be toned down a
bit for the sake of Philippine unity.
Trouble between them started the day President
Quezon landed in San Francisco, at which time he tele
phoned long distance to a former-Governor General 1
the Philippines now in Washington. “Governor,” said
Quezon, "my sword, my sword!"
“What sword?” was the puzzled query.
“That Japanese sword the High Commissioner gave
to President Roosevelt. He said it was from Gen. Mac
Arthur, but it was from me. One of our Philippine
officers took it from a dead Japanese, and I sent it back
to the President by Sayre.”
Note:- Returning to the United States some we As
ahead of Quezon, High Commissioner Sayre had pre
sented Roosevelt with a Japanese officer’s sword. News
paper accounts quoted Sayre as saying the sword had
been sent by General MacArthur. Apparently there
t was a clear-cut misunderstanding.
Shaky China
Chinese leaders in Washington are not shouting it
from the housetops, but behind closed doors they are
doing some tough talking to the effect that an increas
ing number of Chinese are getting discouraged about
the war & would like to see some kind of appeasement
with Japan. Chinese leaders give this as the reason win
China must have airplanes—and have them immediate
jy. The Chinese don’t demand a lot of planes. But they
do say that even a small fraction of the munitions go
ing to Russia would work wonders in bolstering China.
Here is the Chinese picture now being presented to
U. S. war strategists. After five years of war, the Chin
ese are war weary. Most discouraging this is the iron
ical fact that the Chinese are worse off now, with Al
Jies, than they were before, fighting alone. The Chin
ese were deligted after Pearl Harbor because it meant
they had a powerful ally against Japan. But now after
pix months of it, they almost wish they had been left to
k bold out alone. That is why recent reverses in Burma
■and along the China coast have shaken Chinese deter
mination down to the fondation.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shey is not weakening
But many Chinese are, especially the well-to-do class,
the people who yearn for restoration of normal busi
ness, who would rather have a chance to make money
and live peacefully even under the Japs than to pay the
frightful cost of continued war.
Meanwhile, Japan seems determined to crush China
now. Apparently the U. S. bombing raids on Tokyo
scared the Japs sick, made thorn
see the danger of nearby Chinese
bases, caused them to shift their
strategy to cleaning up China
ahead of other warfronts.
U. S. war chiefs realize the ur
gency of the situation, but also
face vital demands from Russia,
the new 2nd front in Europe and
MacArthur. But now it looks as
if promises made to China two
> months ago finally will be ful
filled.
America lags behind the world
We have school kids ten years
old who don’t even know how
to thrust a bayonet. —■ Buffalo
News.
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