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British Fall Back (Anderson) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Federal Sales Tax of 2% Favored by Majority, Gallup Poll Finds (Gallup) – 4
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 5

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 6
Loss of Burma Means a Big Setback in Asia (Baldwin) – 7
Western Europe’s Bombing Grounds (map) – 8
R.A.F. Offensive Found Gaining Its Objectives (Daniell) – 9
Political Commissars Aid Red Army (Parker) – 10
A Survey of National Sentiment on Our All-Out War Effort (by the usual regional correspondents) – 11-15

Editorial Page – 16-21
Springtime for Hitler
China Still Stands
Patent Reform
The Anti-Inflation Program
Poland’s Day
Apple Blossom Time
Topics of the Times
Answers to Twenty News Questions
Causes Held Largely Ignored in President’s Programs (letter)
Men’s Dress Criticized (letter)
Scholar (poem)

The New York Times Book Review
Victory Through Air Power, by Major Alexander de Seversky. Reviewed by Fletcher Platt – 22-23

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/may42/f03may42.htm

Filipinos resist Japanese invasion
Sunday, May 3, 1942 www.onwar.com

Filipino guerrillas organizing against Japanese [photo at link]

In the Philippines... Local resistance succumbs to heavy Japanese landings.

In the Solomons... The Japanese land forces at Tulagi.