Caught by War
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR and the declaration of war against Japan and the Axis that followed it, caught several members of the Dartmouth family in enemy countries. Definite news of their status comes mostly from what news the enemy allows to filter out and into our newspapers. To date, the Dartmouth non-combatants known by this source to be prisoners of war are seven.
Reported among the American civilians held by the Japanese in Manila were William H. Patterson '09, vice president of the Manila Trading and Supply Company, the Ford and Lincoln distributors for the Philippine Islands; William J. Bunnell '22 of the Goodyear Export Company, Ltd.; and Gerald A. Updyke '29, chief draftsman of the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, engineering and general contracting.
Two Dartmouth alumni are in concentration camps in Occupied France: Arthur I. Donahue '15 who was Paris sales manager for Palmolive-Colgate-Peet Company; and Paul Woodman '18 who was in "the auto tire service business at Niort, France, and now interned at Stalag, Compeigne.
Two diplomats are waiting to be exchanged for enemy diplomats. Gerald Warner '28 was American Consul at Kobe, Japan, on the outbreak of war and William E. Cole Jr. '32, secretary of the American Embassy in Rome, is still thought to be in Italy.
A March 14 newspaper clipping reported that Andrew W. Edson '25, who had been secretary of the American Legation in Bucharest, Rumania for some years, had been transferred to the Embassy in London.
