World Battlefronts: Called on Account of Darkness?

Last week the Japs again used one of their advantages: they know more about Americans and American idiom than the U.S. can ever know about “the monkey men.” In a broadcast beamed to the U.S., Tokyo quipped:

“Soon after the surrender of Badoglio there was born in America the phrase, ‘One down and two to go.’. . . But American baseball fans should know better. ‘One down and two to go doesn’t mean much if the next up are Lou Gehrig and Joe Di Maggio. . . .

“The two big hitters are … up and the bases are full, so the [Allied] pitchers will have to make sure they don’t make a single slip. No matter what anyone says, the fact remains that the American people as a whole are not expecting a long war. Well, it is going to be a long game—in fact, so long that you’ll have to take a rain check on it.”