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...market place and in the great hall before the belching statue of Ba'al Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known...
Japan Did It. After the bloody suppression by the British of Burmese nationalist demonstrations in 1938 and 1939, Japanese agents found little difficulty in organizing their own Burmese Nationalist Revolutionary Party. They also fostered an underground Burma Independence Army and acquired the support of Dr. Ba Maw, a former Premier whom the British once imprisoned. Thirty-two nationalists were smuggled to Japan, there trained as pro-Japanese agitators. Inept British administrators did nothing effective to offset these preparations. "Meanwhile," wrote Thien Pe, "British imperialism was fighting on three fronts in Burma. It justly hated the pro-Jap elements. It openly...
...Allies Can Do It. The Japs soon disillusioned the Burmese. Jap soldiers looted and raped. The Japanese made Puppet Ba Maw the nominal dictator of a nominally independent Burma, but they broke many of their promises. Many Burmese, says Author Thien Pe, would now turn against the Japanese and fight with the British if London would give the Burmese people any real encouragement...
Brotherhood Is Scarce. Through both these books, warning steadily of tragic postwar possibilities, runs the theme of international suspicions and hatreds. Mutual dislike was a feature common to the letters Graebner found on Austrian, Ba varian and Prussian soldiers. Lack of a second front, says Graebner, has turned many Russians against Britain and America. Occupied Persia fears Russia, is "sick and tired" of the British, accepts Americans enthusiastically only, perhaps, because they are "new." Graebner believes that American popularity is dwindling in Trinidad, South America and the Middle East as a result of violent "bad behavior" on the part...
...this is militarily important. The Japanese won Burma with Burmese help. They know that Burma offers the Allies the easiest land routes to China. They hope to hold Burma the same way they took it. Said Premier Ba Maw: "The entire Burmese people will fight to the last drop of their blood for the successful construction of Greater East Asia...