Making Waves, On and Off the Air
When
the H. M. S. Repulse was sunk by
Japanese aircraft near Singapore less than a week after the Pearl Harbor
attacks, not everyone was happy American journalist Cecil Brown was one of its
survivors.
The news correspondent for CBS Radio had made plenty of enemies in
Singapore, including its British commander, Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival. The officer
in charge of Percival’s press office made himself conspicuous by his cold
silence when Brown reported back to duty.
