17th January 1945
The Japanese financial adviser in Manila has given us a few graphic flashes of the last days of the Laurel regime in that city. Its government,… Read More »17th January 1945
The Japanese financial adviser in Manila has given us a few graphic flashes of the last days of the Laurel regime in that city. Its government,… Read More »17th January 1945
The press is still beating the tom-toms over the Ise bombing. A noted Japanese historian says that “the enemy are not men for men fight… Read More »16th January 1945
All the drums of propaganda are being beaten frantically throughout Japan. Yesterday afternoon, according to an official communiqué, “the enemy dropped several bombs on the sacred… Read More »15th January 1945
On the way to Mass in the morning we saw a group of youngsters in uniform. They could not have been more than 15 or… Read More »14th January 1945
When, the historians get around to studying the question whether this war was premeditated by Japan, they will be puzzled by the fact that Japan… Read More »13th January 1945
There is a limit even to Japanese patience, it seems. The Yomiuri, this morning, takes the Koiso cabinet slogan in its teeth and shakes it.… Read More »12th January 1945
As the Asahi puts it, with typical bombast, “the American troops have at last set their dirty shoes on the soil of Luzon.” the paper… Read More »11th January 1945
Not all the Japanese are unaware of how things are going. Today a Japanese admitted to me that the situation looked “hopeless”. The Americans, he… Read More »10th January 1945
Eddie Vargas called up today by long-distance from Taiwan; he is stranded there. All civilian air travel to the Philippines has been suspended. We are… Read More »9th January 1945