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Hacking its way through jungles, a rescue party is inching toward a wrecked transport plane locked in the almost uncharted Naga Hills of northern Burma. With the 19 American and Chinese survivors of the crash are a U.S. Air Forces doctor and two enlisted men, who parachuted from a rescue plane...
...Burma, the Japs last week gave "independence." The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed "within the framework of Japan's co-prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political...
...will manipulate the strings of Burma-at-war is Japan's "Special Ambassador" Renzo Sawada, who will stay on in Rangoon as permanent Ambassador from Japan. Burma's new Foreign Minister, Thakin Nu, blandly declared: "Burma is without experience regarding foreign policy. Consequently it is necessary to request advice from Ambassador Sawada, who is experienced in inter national foreign relations, and we have notified him of this fact. After conferring with Ambassador Sawada, domestic affairs, organization and selection of the foreign affairs personnel will be quickly decided upon." Burma's independence, Jap-style, was served up last...
...first he found no Japs. "Sometimes," says he, "I think the 'Great Flying Boss in the Sky' was giving me a little more practice before he put me to the supreme test." But one day Scott flew along the Burma Road, caught a Jap column in a narrow defile...
Last May she changed her mind. She decided to devote the midnight oil one night a week to pounding out a weekly column, free, to the CBI Roundup, weekly paper published in New Delhi for U.S. troops in China, Burma and India under command of Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. She had met U.S. soldiers in China and Burma in 1942, she knew how they longed for news from home...