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Said Eden, reporting on prison camps in Siam, Burma, Malaya, Java, Borneo, Indo-China and the Philippines: "There are many thousands of prisoners from the British Commonwealth, including India, who are being compelled by the Japanese military to live under tropical jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult...
...Royal Navy is moving in any force into the western Pacific, the Japs will have to divert naval strength to protect their sea lanes to Rangoon and north Burma...
...Chinese in northern Burma had been ambushed and harassed by Jap patrols. The Anglo-American anvil chorus began again to beat out the familiar refrain: the Chinese cannot fight...
...Stilwell wanted to see what, if anything, had gone wrong with his thesis that well fed and armed Chinese can fight as valiantly and skillfully as any other troops. He left his headquarters, flew to a forward base, then by jeep and afoot went back into the familiar Burma jungles. He doffed his three stars at a forward command post, donned dirty puttees and stained khaki, wormed up to forward observation posts to watch his U.S.-trained-and-equipped Chinese troops...
...TIME correspondents are spending their holidays in far places this year. Robert Sherrod was back from Tarawa for Christmas at home with his wife and two sons. Jack Belden, veteran of the wars in China, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years...