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...about a war every 20 years. For the average Asiatic in this war the prestige of Europe has suffered tremendously. . . . The fall of France showed up the rottenness of Western imperialism and the burden which it imposed on the people of the West. . . . Much later came the fall of Burma and Malay. This, at any rate, was a direct lesson to the British that their empire was going to pieces. But the astounding thing is that it has had little or no effect...
...theater of Asia, never have so few done so much as the U.S. pilots in China. No correspondent has reported their activities so thoroughly as TIME'S Jack Belden who has lived and flown with them. After five years of war in Burma and China, Correspondent Belden was in India last week, for a war correspondent's holiday. This "is his last dispatch from the China air front...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...Burma's Premier U Saw, in British custody charged with plotting with the Japanese, has died in Egypt, "well-informed Burmese circles" told the United Press in Chungking. U Saw has not died, the Burma Office told U.P. in London...
...anti-British group is composed of the middle class which is about ten percent of the population. Masani attend that unless the situation were remedied immediately, the same thing that occurred in Burma and Malaya would be repeated in India. "A starving nation is unable to fight," he said...