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Into Washington's Boiling Field, on a four-engined bomber from India, came Eric Sevareid, crack CBS reporter; within four hours he was popped before a microphone to give these sharp-cut impressions of the India-Burma-China theater...
China. The Japanese mounted their fourth offensive in the Tungting Lake district of central China. Purposes of the drive, as usual, were: 1) to devastate a rich agricultural area, 2) to give green troops experience, 3) to alarm Chungking. Crack Allied-trained, air-supplied Chinese troops drove into Burma to help extend the Ledo Road, over which, it is hoped, at least a trickle of lifeblood may eventually go to China...
...other assumption is that the Allies could cut through Burma into China and strike at Japan overland before other steps are taken in lower Asia. The trouble with this assumption, at least until vastly greater weight can be shifted from Europe and until a vastly more efficient arterial system is built up in India, is that it would leave intact that very intricate and dangerously efficient system of supply below Formosa, taking in Singapore, Siam, Indo-China and lower Burma. The Japanese would be able to move forces on the Allied right flank far faster than the Allies could move...
Probabilities. Logically, Truk must be captured. This would mean a gradual pruning-cutting off the Marshalls and Gilberts, cutting off Rabaul, then striking at Truk. On the other flank the same kind of process will probably be in order-a pruning not only in Burma but down the line as well, at the Andamans, perhaps, or Malaya or the Dutch islands. The Japanese arteries will be meaningless when they have no flesh into which to feed military lifeblood...
...could seize the ferry slips on the Salween's west bank, he would achieve a substantial success. For the disputed bridgehead could play a key role in an Allied push into northern Burma...