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...departure made airmen in India nod and grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces...
...Yutang wrote this book after Frank lin Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid wall of the Washington blockade of supplies for China." This book is a small but potent charge...
...soon, and how heavily, shall the Allies strike Japan? The war against Japan probably must be started with a Burma campaign, to get help soon to China's land armies. The monsoon rains end in October. Are the British and Americans prepared-and willing-to move then...
...State Department also permitted the Japs to seize the political initiative in Asia, by gifts and promises of gifts of territory to its satellites in Burma, Thailand, Nanking and French Indo-China. Said the New York Times of this U.S. blunder: "We cannot win [Asiatic good will] unless we have something to offer, and what we offer will inevitably be measured against what the Japanese have, if only ostensibly, begun to carry out. ... It is time to give some translation. We may not need to promise full independence . . . but we do have to give some assurance of betterment in their...
Seagrave made it on rafts, ponies and at last a first-class compartment on an Indian .train where he slept on the floor "to ease my conscience." At the end of the book Seagrave is in Assam, happily planning hospital facilities to take care of the refugees out of Burma: "So pitiful. . . . They are starved and emaciated and . . . have picked up the most virulent forms of malaria, amebic and bacillary dysentery." The doctor and his own malaria (which he says he could cure if he had time to go to bed) are somewhere in India still...