Not all the readers of TIME these past six years have been on our side in the war. For example:

P: One of the last Japanese officers to surrender on Guam proved to be surprisingly well informed about world events for the ten months he had spent hiding in a palm-grove. It turned out he had been creeping up to the American lines at night and stealing copies of TIME'S Pony Edition from the Marines.

P: In the files of the Luftwaffe seized at Berchtesgaden one of the "confidential" papers carefully stored away in a folder of its own was Bob Chapin's TIME map of "The Big Push."

P: When the Japanese hospital ship Takasago Maru was intercepted removing the sick and wounded from Wake Island "the Japs didn't have any magazines aboard and very much like to have TIME, LIFE if you have, please," reports Lieutenant Frank Huggins, Tokyo-raised language officer aboard the U.S.S. Murray. The destroyer grudgingly parted with one dog-eared copy of LIFE from the ward room and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition printed in Honolulu. "The Japs bowed an eloquent thanks with a good deal of unnecessary, hissing."

P: Men of the 414th Infantry who found the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in Rossala, Germany, promptly presented her with a copy of TIME. She told them she "knew the magazine well, but hadn't seen it for a long time."

P: John Albert, Chief of OWI's Intelligence and Analysis Division in New York, tells us that all during the war the Nazi radio "quoted" TIME more often than any other magazine to give believability to its lies--usually by taking sentences out of their context to distort their meaning. (Once a Nazi station that pretended to be broadcasting from inside the U.S. gave itself away by quoting a TIME report four weeks old a few minutes before that same quote came over the air from Berlin--"thus making it clear that the same issue had reached both stations at the same time--via Portugal.")

P: "In the hope that they might acquire a democratic outlook," the Swedish government has been distributing copies of our Stockholm Edition regularly to the quislings of Norway and Denmark interned at Kalmar Prison.

P: When TIME'S August 27 issue, with MacArthur on the cover, was flown to occupied Japan, some of the first copies were snapped up by, the two big Tokyo newspapers Asahi and Mainichi, whose editors got from TIME the first free-press news to reach that land of propagandists and censors since Pearl Harbor.

And perhaps you will remember the story about General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, onetime commander of all German land, sea and air forces in Norway. Annoyed that his American captors did not recognize him immediately, he exclaimed indignantly: "But your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the cover!"

Cordially,

P.S. Now that our friend Haile Selassie is back on his throne as Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah, he has renewed his TIME subscription and sent us a check for $38.90 so we can air mail the next 26 issues to him.

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