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SHIPPINGFailureShipbuilding was way short of its goal.

To turn out 8,000,000 tons by the end ofthe year, yards should long since havebeen turning out two ships a day, shouldvery soon be delivering three a day-closeto a million tons a month. The MaritimeCommission announced last week that thenumber of cargo vessels delivered duringApril was 36-less than half the requiredmillion tons. .A year ago that now-piddling total

would have seemed fantastic to U.S. ship-builders. But this was 1942, year of need.Some yards broke records. Some yards ex-panded like mushrooms overnight. Somebuilders bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships.Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimoreannounced a 75-day goal. The westCoast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser,entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now ofships, claimed a record of 81 days at hisPortland, Ore. shipyard.Not even this was good enough.Criticism was sharp and hot against the

men responsible for the program: Rear Ad-miral Emory S. Land, shipping tsar andhis sidekick Rear Admiral Howard L. Vick-ery in the Maritime Commission. Criticsinside the Administration gave up sniping,got down to the objective of gettingleathery. salty Hlerry" Land out. The'leveled three withering charges against thewhole U.S. shipbuilding program: therewas no real central control; there 'was adismal lack of coordination; there hadbeen an all-around failure to anticipateneeds. They even had a candidate to takeJerry Land's place: the West Coast'shurry-up man, Henry Kaiser.

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TERRITORIESQuezon Comes HomeAs the last U.S.-Philippine resistance

collapsed on Corregidor (see p. 25), Man-uel Quezon quietly arrived in the U.S. toset up his territorial Government-in-Exile.After three months on Corregidor, wherehe lost 18 pounds, President Quezon hadfollowed General MacArthur to Australia.There he was almost a recluse. He smiledonce, when told that Japanese propagandabroadcasts reported his death at the handsof MacArthur.To the U.S. Quezon brought his wife,

two daughters and son, tall, mannerly VicePresident Sergio Osmefia ; Don AndresSoriano, organizer of the Filipino guerrillasand now Quezon's Secretary of Finance,three physicians, a. nurse, and a group ofmilitary aides and secretaries. The tripto the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on,under and over the sea." He landed atSan Francisco from a grey Army transport.Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotelin an Army car, Manuel Quezon heardnewsboys shout news of the Battle of theCoral Sea.

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A rigid Filipino U.S. Army sergeantstood guard outside the hotel room. Man-uel Quezon posed for photographers, toldnewsmen: "When war began I said thePhilippines will stand by the United Statesuntil the bitter end. Thank God the factproves I was right." He said little more.A hacking, tuberculous cough interruptedhis every word. How did he feel aboutBataan and Corregidcr? Manuel Quezonleaned wearily back in a deep, red chair,closed his eyes and murmured' huskily:"I am proud."

JUDICIARYKnight OutThe language most lawyers use might

just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far asthe layman is concerned. But no man, nomatter how lay, would have trouble un-derstanding the language of Lawyer Rich-ard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used toshock friends and intoxicate New Yorktabloid readers by such didos as kickingout taxicab windows and standing on hishead at a Metropolitan Opera opening, whofor years has swung a' legal tomahawkaround New York courts, terrifying law-yers and citizens alike, has devoted him-self during the past two years to writing.He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethanstyle that soars far above legalese. Itssimple, pungent, unlegal merit is that itis as understandable as swearing. That ismostly what It IS.Lawyer Knight's language has been

broadcast in a series of mimeographedletters, to a mailing list of more than3,000. The objective- of his mail campaignhas been to direct attention to the allegedmishandling of the estate of his late father-in-law, Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr. Lucky

LAWYER KNIGHTHis language is understandable.

readers of his epistles wondered as theyread: Why could not more legal writingbe like Knight's?His general charges, contained in letters

to friend & foe, were that New York ju-rists, banks, grand juries, the Bar, stank.Some notable Knightisms:"This mouthy, pretentious, ca1culating

little climber ... this degraded knave .this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg .that posturing sometime reformer ... thetwenty-two goats and monkeys who com-posed the grand jury ... this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by trans-parent obfuscations ... the gang of sneakingchild-cheaters ... these two low, skulkingrogues ... and the rest of the besottedjudicial jackals ... illiterate imbeciles... lick-spittle time-servers and chore-boys aromatically crooked as a skunk'shind leg The corruption of these ab-ject poltroons is merely one example of thecorruption which infects our entire judicialsystem ... these esurient, self-seekingherding jerks."But last week, as it must to innovators,

a prattfall came to Lawyer Knight. Find-ing him "guilty of gross moral turpitude,"the New York Appellate Division, unim-pressed bv his command of loose-reinedEnglish, declared in unyielding legalese:"The imputation of corruption and dis-honesty renders it impossible for the mostopen-minded individual to characterize thevituperative attacks as fair criticism of"the cotil'ts." In worasot'lJIle-syltable, MeKnight was kicked out of the New YorkBar.At once he declared he would appeal.

His readers could hardly wait.

WARTIME LIVINGOn the MoveSix million U.S. people move every

year. In big cities they usually move onlya few blocks, in small towns, across thestreet. Their reasons: to be near theJ cneses, to get more sun in the livingroom, an extra bedroom for Junior, a big-ger garden, lower rent-or restlessness.This year more U.S. families will movethan ever before, and they will move far-ther. The cross-country trek to inland de-fense centers was 50% greater this springthan in r 94 1.There are new reasons for local moving

too. For the past fortnight 51,500 Chicagofamilies, I I,SOO more than ever before,have been trying to complete their May I

moving. Their reasons:.... They are mad at landlords fer uppingrents before the freeze order..... Sons and husbands in armed for-ces leftmany a family with apartments too big..... The new trend is to live as close tooffices and factories as possible, to saveon tires, gas, shoe leather.This year fewer Chicago telephone sub-

scribers than in I94I wanted their phonesmoved. Many were giving up telephonesbecause of the higher cost of living.•

TIME, May 18, 1942

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THE AMERICASNeighborsThe big man with the smile and the

seersucker suit extended a big hand. "I'mglad you're here," he said simply. Thetrim, high-domed man in the brownish-purplish suit answered: "I'm glad to behere."Other men at such a meeting might have

searched their minds for more memorablewords. Not so Good Neighbor FranklinRoosevelt and Good Neighbor ManuelPrado Ugarteche of Peru. But it was amemorable occasion: Senor Prado was thefirst incumbent President of a South Amer-ican country ever to visit Washington.The air-minded President had strato-

ciippered the 2,875 miles from Lima toBolling Field, where waited FranklinRoosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Al-though no parade had been scheduled,seven military bands and guards of honorat "present arms" flanked the four-mileroute. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's"Sunshine Special':' his big, shiny limou-sine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru'sred-and-white banner. Government work-ers hung out of office windows. It wasWashington's first parade since Pearl Har-bor.The simple friendliness of the Roosevelt

greeting made sense to President Prado.Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. Hisfather was twice President of Peru ; abrother, the-late Leoncio. is a nationalhero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, anindustrial manager) a banker. But his risehad been a hard grind. His first politicalexperience, as superintendent of a pollingstation in the elections of 1912, was abeating by a hostile mob. While an under-graduate at Peru's University of San Mar-cos, he enlisted in the Army as a private,saw front-line service during the war withEcuador in 1910. He had struggled alongon the salary of an assistant professor ininfinitesimal analysis at San Marcos. Ac-cused by the Government of revolutionarysympathies, he was imprisoned, deported,was for ten years a European exile.Smooth, tough-minded President Prado

had supported the anti-Axis front. Evenas President Prado flew north, Peru andthe U.S. were completing a reciprocaltrade agreement. The bonds between thenations were those of common sense andcommon interest.President Prado presented his White

House hosts with a hand-hammered silverplate, an assortment of ancient Inca pot-tery and water jugs; for four days wentto formal luncheons, dinners and recep-tions. Then he addressed Congress-thefirst Latin American President to do so-and headed for Detroit.In the next ten days President Prado,

visiting U.S. war-production centers, wouldplainly see how the once-feared Colossusof the North was pouring its fabulouswealth of men and money and guns againstan enemy that threatened Peru too.

Tum, May 18, 1942

CONCENTRATION CAMP, U.S. STYLESouthern California's. harsh golden sunlight pouring through slatted fences

makes these japanese-at Manzanar-the U.S.'s biggest concentration camp-looklike convicts. But there are no walls or fences and only a few sentries around:Manzanar's 5,000 acres in the fabulous Owens River Valley, where more than; .oco Japs and .Nisei are already interned, with 3,000 more to come. Eightyper cent of the internees are U.S. citizens (they include several famed Holly-wood butlers, and one World War I hero who is an American Legion bigwig);not many are pro-Japanese. Their main complaint: boredom. Only some 2,200have thus far found jobs to do. Mostly they stoically agree with ex-SergeantMajor Tokutaro Slocum (his surname from the North Dakota family thatraised him) who said last week: "Being here is my part in the war."

POLITICSLehman Steps DownAble, stable Herbert Lehman, who has

been Governor of New York for the lastten years, has served the last six yearsunwillingly.';' He ran in 1936 to help carrythe State for his great & good friendFranklin Roosevelt, ran in 1938 mainly tohead off up-&-coming Republican TomDewey when the Democrats were all outof high-caliber candidates.Last week Albany newsmen gathered in

the Governor's office, got a 37-word mim-eographed announcement of his politicalretirement. On or before the end of histerm in December, he will go to Washing-ton to take one last public job in the wareffort (possibly in the QuartermasterCorps). Then tia-year-old Herbert Leh-man, who has well earned a rest, will goback once & for all to his 7o-acre West-chester estate.Lehman's withdrawal left in the Demo-

cratic saddle onetime Postmaster GeneralJames A. Farley, who has most of NewYork's Irish county leaders at his stirrup.::' In f937 New York law was changed to makethe Eovemorship a four-year term.

Now anti- Third-Termer Farley had a goodchance to name his ovvn candidate at theDemocratic primary convention in Sep-tember. Right now Farley'S candidate isAttorney General John J. Bennett Jr.,an honest, painstaking administrator whomakes neither mistakes nor vote-catchingheadlines.Some figured that colorless John Ben-

nett was merely filling in for the firstlap, would toss the baton to Farley him-self at convention time. Washington NewDealers-who want no part of Farley.or aFarley lieutenant-made sweet cooingsounds to statesmanlike Owen D. Young,former General Electric board chairman,who might be persuaded to run if thenomination. came on a dignified platter.For the G.O.P. nomination,' Tom

Dewey already had enough delegates linedup. But over the party, like a huge, good-tempered but strict schoolmaster, hoveredtousled Wendell Willkie. No Republicancandidate could well carryon withoutWillkie's help, and Willkie was plainlyagainst Tom Dewey, who has a waveringrecord on foreign-affairs issues, and hasnot yet declared himself flatly on post-warU.S. policy.

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