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History was repeating itself in the sawtooth mountains and jungled valleys of the Arakan where the Burma-India border touches the Bay of Bengal...
...campaign had begun hopefully. British and Indian troops captured Maungdaw, close by the Burma-India border. Patrols moved south, following the west side of the Mayu ridge. Other British columns swung east toward Buthidaung to protect the left flank...
Reconquest When? The renewed Battle of Burma was still only small-scale attrition; probably not more than 4,000 Japs were engaged. Neither side was heady with success and both were beginning to feel the supply pinch...
Greatly admired though he was in the U.S., T. V. Soong found it difficult to maintain his prestige in China after the fall of Burma, when he could get almost no help from the U.S. Besides questions of public policy there were personal differences between T. V. and his two potent sisters, Mme. H. H. Kung and Mme. Chiang Kaishek: Mme. Kung in general represents conservative party politics and T. V. by comparison, the aggressive liberal forces. Mme. Chiang sided with the Kungs...
British prestige in China dropped to an alltime low when news of the Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma disasters reached Chungking. A year later, a British Parliamentary mission flew to China, hoping to recreate good will and understanding...