> In return for a pair of 10¢-store earrings and a cheap brooch, a South Sea Islander dug 52 foxholes for U.S. soldiers.
> No amount of money could buy a horse which was needed to haul medical supplies. But a string of beads could.
> One native asked (and got) as rent for his canoe a bauble which soldiers found in a shipment of cards and games.
Lieut. General Millard Harmon, Commander of Army Forces in the South Pacific, told such stories during a recent trip home.to San Francisco. The League for...
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