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...Acheson and British Colonel John J. Llewellin demurred. UNRRA relief, said they, was only for areas liberated from the enemy. Bluntly retorted Interloper Singh: If relief is for war victims, how can the United Nations refuse aid to famine-stricken India, where war has stopped all rice imports from Burma?*The big nations, embarrassed but adamant, refused to reconsider...
...will be months-perhaps many months-before Lord Louis Mountbatten's forces strike in strength. But, on the Burma borders, Allied power is already manifest. In the north, an Allied push clawed forward on schedule. Columns of crack Chinese troops in three weeks had advanced 50 miles, were at the southern tip of the 50-mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective...
...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...
Jungle War. "The Japanese and the jungles-both are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new Ledo Road . . . from India...
Moral Strategy. "America's moral standing with many of the peoples of India, Burma and the contiguous areas is falling rapidly. Many intelligent, articulate people there have concluded that Britain is calling the tune as to strategy and the postwar destinies of these peoples, and they believe we have accepted the role of a subdued second fiddle...