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Last week Bengal officials, seeking help in New Delhi, offered a plan for the systematic housing and feeding of the destitute, and a proposal for repatriating refugees to the villages. Others eyed the Japanese looting of Burmese rice stocks and hoped for a more permanent solution: the reconquest of Burma...
Mounting stock piles of U.S. matériel, and the recent appointment of Major General George E. Stratemeyer to the command of U.S. air forces in Burma, India and China (TIME, Aug. 30), meant that Lord Louis would have active U.S. aid there. His deputy commander would probably be a U.S. Army...
...monsoon rains still poured over Burma, making an offensive in that area impossible for several weeks. Britain's No. 1 amphibious commander would not be able to create his striking force overnight...
...When the British Government closed the Burma Road...
...When General Wavell, during the Burma campaign of 1942, confiscated Lend-Lease supplies on their way to China...