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Missing in Action. British Army Lieut. John David Graves, 23, son of Author Robert von Ranke Graves (Goodbye to All That); after capturing a Japanese outpost singlehanded; in Burma. In World War I, his father held the same rank in the same regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers), was once listed as "died of wounds...
With the first landing party was Jack Belden, veteran of four years' fighting in China, companion of General Stilwell in the retreat from Burma, often under fire with the British Eighth Army as it swept across the Mareth Line and up through Tunisia...
...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
...that it could be undertaken, even on last week's preliminary scale, testified to growing Allied might. There, as in the Mediterranean, the most meaningful fact is that the Allies have the initiative. In the Pacific-Asian theater, it is a highly qualified initiative. Many Pacific islands-and Burma-still lie between the Allies and Japan, or between them and the bases from which Japan can be attacked...
...accord the honor of independence to the Philippines in the course of the current year. . . . We shall take measures envisaging participation of native populations in the Government to an extent commensurate with their ability. . . . We intend to realize this state of affairs as early as possible in Java . . . and Burma...