The Archive · 1939

Strange New Year

"His ' chapters' on,. the Japanese troops' "first New. Year away from home are revealing in the extreme and show with mo attempt at exe aggeration the manner in which this festive season, so dear to, Japanese hearts, is spent ina foreign land where all the pleasantness. and gaiety associated with the holiday is entirely Tneking. His description of how the tion' to which he was attached pent these days 1s warmly intimate ana dijeloses. an understanding of the ample but none the less important Uhings of life that is not often put

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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