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...honor General Joseph Stilwell's part in the Burma campaign, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who had forced "Vinegar Joe's" recall, last week named the newly opened Ledo-Burma highway Stilwell Road. The General was not present to see his dream of a new route from India to China come true. TIME Correspondent Theodore M. White, who was, cabled...
...over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
...From Burma, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White.cabled important news...
Here on this mountaintop in the sun is the end of the long campaign. Not even Hollywood could have written it better. The 7,500-ft. mountain over there that the Japs hold is called Huilungshan and it is on the border of China. On the other side is Burma. Chinese soldiers are going to take that mountain and pierce the blockade of China...
From across the mountain it is possible to smell the victory, clear and sweet. Its odor is different from the odor of defeat in eastern China. It is as different as is the odor of the valley of the Burma Road, full of bananas, pineapples and tropical ferns, from that of the highway to Kweiyang, covered with ice and the stink of death...