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Worse than Burma. The Cagayan Valley drive was the culmination of fighting in terrain so cruel that General Joseph W. Stilwell said it was worse than Burma. Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift, corps commander, had sent his divisions driving through backbreaking country that was all gorges and razor-backed ridges and mountain peaks that prodded the clouds. One division had advanced only 1,000 yards in four weeks, lost and retook one hill four times. The world may never have seen steeper fighting...
...girdling history. As an Air Forces colonel, he mapped many of A.T.C.'s new routes, located and developed many of its airdromes. He retired as a major general with a chestful of medals received for achievements ranging from eliminating custom duties in North Africa to rescue work in Burma...
...able to keep her economy in surprisingly good balance until a complete blockade was slapped upon her in 1942, and that was not her fault. We and the British controlled the seas, but we could not keep the sea lanes open to China and the British could not hold Burma and so China was completely cut off. The blockade had the same effect on her as it had on our South in the War between the States. The South was not industrialized, as China is not industrialized. The South had to get supplies and equipment and machinery and munitions from...
Wedemeyer and his staff have received unprecedented cooperation from the Generalissimo. From the beginning, Chiang appreciated Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since...
...India's fashionable Simla last week, Burma's governor, trim, mustachioed Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, was waiting to re-enter Rangoon. Well might he recall the words he had uttered in October 1943, after his expulsion from Burma: "Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe. . . . We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course...