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Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar political roughhouse, retaliated last July with an attempted coup and Aung San's assassination...
...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
Chennault says that Stilwell never once asked him to present an airman's picture of the China war. Chennault believes that Stilwell's initial defeat by the Japanese in Burma led to his obsession with the planning of a second Burma campaign which was to vindicate Stilwell's military reputation. Chennault traces many of Stilwell's mistakes in his relations with the Chinese to his preoccupation with the reopening of the Burma Road, which Chennault believes was a nearly valueless objective. Actually, the damage was done before the first Burma campaign...
...turn to the jobs he could do well: troop training and tactical command. He believed that the Chinese soldier could be made into a first-class fighting man, and he proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced." The accent is on "divisional...
...more women," said Mrs. Lambert. At last Charlie had an idea. "Why not a snake? That would cover it." Cecil Lambert, who hadn't said a word, started from his lethargy. "Can't stand snakes," he cried. "Dream of them ever since I saw them in Burma." A snake, said Charlie's wife, would be just the thing...