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What licked the Japs in North Burma? The British like to think that in great part it was the jungle work of His Majesty's guerrilla genius, Major General Orde C. Wingate, who did such a good job of mauling supply lines that the Japanese later died on the vine. In Back to Mandalay, Lowell Thomas concedes that Wingate was a genius, but he strongly implies that it was the U.S. Army Air Forces which showed Wingate how to do his job. Back to Mandalay is Thomas' story of how a crack team of U.S. airmen, in effect...
...boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...militarists' more vocal spokesmen is bullet-headed, bullet-riddled ex-Colonel Shigenobu Tsuji (30 times wounded in campaigns in China, Burma, Malaya and India). Tsuji crackles as he talks, speaking, as he puts it in the Japanese phrase, "with his drawers down." He is on the government's purge list, but makes no effort to hide his contempt for the purge and for Liberal Premier Yoshi-da's administration. He has written a book in which he seriously questions whether the U.S. can win an all-out war with Russia. Tsuji wants U.S. arms but he does...
Last January famed Burma Surgeon Gordon Seagrave was convicted of abetting treason against the new republic of Burma by allegedly helping rebel Karen tribesmen (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950 et seq.). His sentence: six years at hard labor, later reduced to six months. Longing to return to the north Burma hospital where he had already spent more than half his life, Dr. Seagrave appealed. This week, Burma's three-man Supreme Court rendered the final verdict: not guilty...
...great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house. In its self-righteous '303, the U.S. derided such talk as hypocritical. But troubles in such suddenly freed nations as the Philippines, Burma and Indonesia have made the U.S. think again...