mc arthur desperately doesn't want to be that place. He wants aircraft, curiers. What can he expect when is help coming? Is what he's basically saying. The philippino president will shake with rage at one point after listening to franklin roosevelt on the radio promising all these supplies to the battle front in europe. There's a lot of newspaper space devoted to places less depressing than ongoing siege and batan. And yet, you can imagine, 15 thousand americans would like to be on the bastards of batan.