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...when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma into India)-and he can also tell you about the personal characteristics of most of the American flyers in China, from the youngest pilot to cribbage-playing Brigadier General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tiger mascot-dachshund...
...willing to let the U.S. move on Japan over her soil-at least until after the defeat of Hitler. To the west, the mass of China could well base hostile air and land forces, but China is of limited use to Japan's enemies until they own Burma, and the stalemated minor campaign there indicates that that is not now a danger. To the south there lies a great arc of air and naval bases, one sector of which is threatened at the Solomons...
Left" out, as usual, in such a deal would be the nationalist aspirations of Free China, now close to economic collapse and pleading to be kept in the war by increased shipments of planes and the reopening of the Burma Road...
These are the questions which Washington and London must weigh when they debate whether they can afford a serious campaign to reopen the Burma route to China-or, more immediately, whether they can find as many as 500 fighting planes to send to the China front. These are not questions to be answered by soldiers alone. China's questions can be answered only if the deep significance and the immediate dangers of China's plight are understood by the leaders of the U.S. and Great Britain...
...trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...