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...these causes can be added one more: Japanese capture of Burma's "rice bowl," from which came 1,500,000 tons of rice annually to supplement India's average yearly production of 27,000,000 tons...
Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
...from X Base. More than a year ago pint-sized Captain James Arthur Kehoe, onetime Kentucky tobacco farmer, sallied into the Burma jungles with a bowie knife and a sackful of cheap watches for trading (TIME, May 31). Kehoe was off to negotiate with Naga headhunters for military outposts and to survey the wild country through which the new road was to pass. Last December the engineers moved surreptitiously into rolling green tea gardens on the far eastern fringes of India's Assam Province. There they set up "X Base" near a little one-lane gravelly road which British...
Last week work was far enough along for the Army to reveal the project. How far the Army had clawed its way into Burma was not disclosed. Also secret was the road's specific destination. But the general direction was obvious: towards the enemy entrenched in northern Burma...
Primarily the Ledo Road will be a supply line for Allied troops when the widely heralded Burma campaign finally gets under way. Secondarily, when the Japs are cleaned out, it will serve as a link between the supply routes of India and the old Burma Road to China. Before the Welcome-to-Burma sign stands another fingerpost erected by the Hairy Ears. This one reads: "To Tokyo...