A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 22, 1945

This is a letter about some troubles we've seen these past eight months.

They're the troubles we've had getting enough copies of TIME printed fast in a city where there was no paper and where practically all the presses were either sabotaged by the Japs or destroyed by our own bombers.

Maybe you'll remember that we started to print TIME in Manila almost the same day General MacArthur marched in (a Jap sniper was still banging away only fifty yards from the bindery). And soon now we will be turning out twenty times as many copies as we could print that first day.

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