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Thus was ending the seventh year of China's war. It had not been a hopeless year. At its end, the Chinese no longer felt that they had been fobbed off with nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done what they could for China (and for the Allied cause). Millions of U.S. dollars had been poured into China to provision the Fourteenth Air Force, bolster China's strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would...
China choked within the Jap blockade. Her lack of supplies, particularly heavy weapons for an army of riflemen and grenade-throwers, had become so vast that a new Burma Road could not satisfy it. Perhaps nothing less than an Allied landing on the China coast and the winning of a major supply port would do. Now the Japs, astride the Hankow-Canton line, threatened to cut this desperate hope. Certainly, until the blockade was thoroughly broken, no one could expect the ill-fed, ill-munitioned Chinese armies to take the offensive...
Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
Year V. In Pearl Harbor's wake, China briefly exulted, then despaired. Within six months the Japs took the Philippines, Singapore, the Indies, Burma. Their ring around China was complete. The U.S. was very busy elsewhere. General Claire Chennault's A.V.G., the feeble beginnings of the Fourteenth Air Force, were gallant mockeries of China's first hopes. But China hung...
Points & Views Brigadier General Frank Merrill, jungle-wise commander of Merrill's Marauders, took time out in Burma to read a letter from the Human Engineering Society of Newark, NJ. Enclosed with a photograph showing the General smoking a pipe was a plea that he and his raiders, as an example to American youth, abstain from smoking...