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...suggest a U.S. buying commission handling the whole deal, and directing policy to bleed from Jap territory essentials which cannot be imported by air cargo or even over a reopened Burma Road. This cannot be done with Chinese dollars because their high velocity forces them back into free China; likewise U.S. dollars eventually do the same. Gold with real value will go underground, and cannot be effectively outlawed by the Japs. Even if passing into Jap hands, its use to them will be negligible as they have already sufficient (gold) for their own purposes...
Assam and Burma own terrain which will not tolerate motor transport. Result: elephants have returned to the assistance of the Indian Army after a lapse of 40 years...
...Burma's Judy. In Burma even more is being made of political appeals. Fortnight ago Burma's Puppet Premier Ba Maw visited Tokyo. He was entertained in an annex of Premier Tojo's official residence. He was taken to the Diet, given a banquet, interviewed. And then he was told by Premier Tojo that Japan had set up "the new independent State of Burma...
...this is militarily important. The Japanese won Burma with Burmese help. They know that Burma offers the Allies the easiest land routes to China. They hope to hold Burma the same way they took it. Said Premier Ba Maw: "The entire Burmese people will fight to the last drop of their blood for the successful construction of Greater East Asia...
...state of the battle while withholding facts which might comfort the enemy, few generals find it easy to state the bitter, unqualified truth in communiqué or other public utterance. One of the frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...