U.S. newspaper readers got a fresh point of view last week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class of '40, son of the ex-Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to...
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