NBC News Of The World – Evening Edition – March 27, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –
News for this day was the arrival of Philippine President Manuel Quezon and his Cabinet in Australia for what looked like an extended stay while the battle against Japanese invasion was looking grimmer by the hour.
General Douglas MacArthur welcomed Manuel Quezon warmly, knowing full-well what he had to go through to get to Australia by sea, which MacArthur did by plane only weeks before.
Corregidor was witness to relentless attacks, which news reports claimed did little damage.
Meanwhile, from Washington; it was reported that the order was just given that a still closer cooperation between Army and Navy forces who had the job of watching out for and hunting submarines off the U.S. Atlantic coast. All Army patrol planes were to be under Navy command.
Across the Atlantic, it was learned Nazis forces were holding disembarkation exercises ahead of the anticipated invasion of Britain, or Sweden or Leningrad.
Talks were being held in India between Sir Stafford Cripps and Mohandas Gandhi. The guess was the talks were focused on a proposal for independence, which India had wanted long before the War. The prevailing feeling was, once the war was won, Britain would grant India Independence to become a free British Dominion with the free right to withdraw from the British Empire. And that each state within India would be able to vote to determine their own wishes to join or leave the British Dominion, with any province deciding not to join would stay outside the Federation. Those states that decided not to join were then able to form their own federation which would have free Dominion status. Britain was to continue defending India until the war was over. Indian minority groups would be guaranteed those safeguards for protection of minorities which had already been worked out by the League Of Nations before the war.
And as reports continued to filter in regarding Manuel Quezon’s landing in Australia, that’s a little of what went on, this March 27, 1942 as reported by the Evening edition of Alka-Seltzer’s News Of The World.
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