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...looters and hold to the last, until the Japs finally entered this week, the remnants of that golden city. British and Indian troops fought, fell back, fought again. British crews arrived with a few U.S. tanks-too few. U.S. pilots in China's American Volunteer Group had to abandon Rangoon, after taking a heavy toll of Japanese planes with the few bullet-battered fighters left to them. Correspondent Leland Stowe watched a bombed village burn, and wrote "When you looked again at the sagging skeletons of these wooden structures, somehow you thought immediately of Japan-Japanese buildings are made...
Here are the facts: 1) There were seven pieces of small hand luggage (not 13). 2) I was forced to abandon the personal effects of my wife, three children and myself in Bulgaria with an infinitesimal chance of ever seeing them again or being recompensed by our Government as this takes a special act of Congress. The value of these personal belongings, furniture, etc. is about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa...
...Said Britain could better afford to abandon Egypt than Australia...
...Asked all India to abandon nonviolence...
Shortly afterwards the University announced that under a new ruling it would soon be possible for members of the R.O.T.C. to abandon their regular College work in order to devote their entire time to intensive training...