THE WILL TO LIVE
GIVE US THIS DAY, by Sidney Stewart; Staples, English price 15/-. HAT the author managed to survive three years of ill-treatment and neglect as a prisoner of. the Japanese, while thousands of stronger men taken captive with him died, is a tribute to his faith and to his indomitable will to live. Fourteen thousand of the Americans and Filipinos captured in the Bataan peninsula failed to survive their captors’ brutal treatment on the nineday march back to a prison camp; 9000 more died in the next two weeks inside that dreadful compound; hundreds died later from disease or were murdered by their guards when they became too ill to move; hundreds more, starved, naked, neglected, were drowned or burned in the holds of ships bombed or torpedoed on the way to Japan. Mr Stewart tells their storv without bitterness, explains his captors’ way of life and, in the spirit of the Lord’s Prayer, asks forgiveness for their crimes. But perhaps we can forgive too readily and
forget too soon,
W.A.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 14
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175THE WILL TO LIVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 14
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