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## Table of Contents

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[INTERNATIONAL: THE JAP AS BOSS-MAN](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849821,00.html)[FAR EAST: Pacific Charter?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849822,00.html)[GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill's Good Cheer](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849823,00.html)[GERMANY: War's Children](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849824,00.html)[Foreign News: The Treason of Christianity](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849825,00.html)[GREECE: Babies Like Old Men](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849826,00.html)[UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: Under Der Union Jack](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849827,00.html)[FRANCE: A Visitor to Paris](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849828,00.html)[CANADA: Make Up Your Mind](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849829,00.html)[MEXICO: Mother's Day](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849830,00.html)[JAPAN: Scorched Earth](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849831,00.html)[Foreign News: Case Unsolved](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849855,00.html)[Foreign News: Father's Day](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849856,00.html)[Foreign News: Unpopular War?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849857,00.html)[Foreign News: Union Now](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849888,00.html)[Foreign News: Children's War](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849889,00.html)[Realization](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849793,00.html)[Smith & Coy](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849794,00.html)[Politicking](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849795,00.html)[HEROES: Welcome Home](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849796,00.html)[FOREIGN RELATIONS: All Gaul in Three Parts --](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849797,00.html)[Idea of the Week](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849798,00.html)[Neighbors](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849799,00.html)[Lehman Steps Down](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849800,00.html)[Failure](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849801,00.html)[JUDICIARY: Knight Out](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849802,00.html)[On the Move](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849803,00.html)[Quezon Comes Home](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849804,00.html)[U.S. At War: Sugar Books](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849805,00.html)[Baby's Awake Now](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849806,00.html)[INFLATION: Subsidies?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849807,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849808,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AUSTRALIA: Morale: 100%](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849809,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A Different May](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849810,00.html)[World Battlefronts: HEROES: To Hell and Out Again](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849811,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: No Help for Perplexity](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849812,00.html)[World Battlefronts: INDIAN OCEAN: Key to a Salient](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849813,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Flight to the West](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849814,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Where is the Luftwaffe?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849815,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE BALKANS: Somewhere, Somehow](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849816,00.html)[World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Thing or Ante-Thing](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849817,00.html)[World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Tiger for Old Dob Dob](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849818,00.html)[World Battlefronts, THE PHILIPPINES: Ghostly Garrison](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849819,00.html)[World Battlefronts: AT SEA: Arctic Heat](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849820,00.html)[AND CIVILIAN DEFENSE,PRODUCTION: WINGS FOR THE NAVY](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849840,00.html)[AIR: Firepower](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849841,00.html)[CIVILIAN DEFENSE,ARMY: Spiritual Alert](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849842,00.html)[U.S. At War: Bill of Health, Fiscal](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849863,00.html)[World Battlefronts: The Jollies Have Landed](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849864,00.html)[World Battlefronts: Brightout](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849865,00.html)[World Battlefronts: Gas](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849866,00.html)[World Battlefronts: The Curves Must Cross](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849867,00.html)[Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: Air Freighter](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849869,00.html)[Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: For Soldiers' Spectacles](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849870,00.html)[Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: New Head](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849871,00.html)[ARMY: It's Six Million](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849872,00.html)[Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: WAAC at Last](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849873,00.html)[Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: Old Soldiers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849874,00.html)[U.S. At War: Rich--on Paper](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849886,00.html)[U.S. At War: The Worst Is Always True](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849887,00.html)[Medicine: Asiatic Cholera](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849835,00.html)[Medicine: DOCTOR V. PATIENT](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849891,00.html)[The Press: Coughlin Quits](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849845,00.html)[The Press: Cissie and Drew](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849878,00.html)[The Press: Fight for Freedom](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849879,00.html)[The Press: Correspondents in India](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849880,00.html)[The Press: Chattanooga Shakeup](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849881,00.html)[The Press: Insufficient Funds](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849882,00.html)[Religion: Primate on Profit](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849843,00.html)[Religion: Saints at Saint Patrick's](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849875,00.html)[Sport: Alsab Comes Back](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849844,00.html)[Sport: Latest Casualty](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849876,00.html)[Sport: In the Gloaming](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849877,00.html)[Facts, Figures, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849846,00.html)[OIL: No Tankers, No Profits](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849847,00.html)[AVIATION: Pan Am at War](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849848,00.html)[INFLATION: New Credit Dampers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849849,00.html)[PATENTS: Paraflow and Paradox](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849850,00.html)[Featherbedridden McNear](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849851,00.html)[POST WAR: 19?? Model](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849852,00.html)[Business & Finance: Perfect Example?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849883,00.html)[Education: Norway's Unteachables](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849836,00.html)[Education: 70%--or Else](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849860,00.html)[The Theater: Up From Avery](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849832,00.html)[Art: Ferriss' Future-Perfect](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849834,00.html)[Music: May Records](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849837,00.html)[Radio: Voice of the '20s](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849839,00.html)[The New Pictures, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849853,00.html)[Books: Daydream](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849854,00.html)[The Theater: But No War Tax](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849858,00.html)[The Theater: Lillie in London](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849859,00.html)[Radio: Hate?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849861,00.html)[Radio: For the Boys Abroad](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849862,00.html)[Art: Not An Optimist](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849868,00.html)[Books: Radiopuss](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849884,00.html)[Books: Poetry, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849885,00.html)[Cinema: Current & Choice, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849890,00.html)[Milestones, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849838,00.html)[People: People, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849833,00.html)[Letters, May 18, 1942](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849792,00.html)


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