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...Chiang Kaishek...
True, the Burma Road was choked. But it was choked by hundreds of trucks moving supplies northward into China and returning with crack, seasoned Chinese troops, drawn from Chiang Kai-shek's elite divisions and equipped with rifles, bayonets, hand grenades, light & heavy machine guns, trench mortars and automatic pistols. Many of them were already in action on the Salween front. New arrivals strung out protectively along the Burma Road north of Lashio or skirmished with the Jap along the Thai border...
...that Singapore has fallen, the loss of Rangoon would mean China cut off, and the ring for a return bout blasted into splinters. This man Nehru could, with the 425,000,000 Chinese that Chiang represents, hold sway over one-third of the population of the world. The natives of India, given their freedom, could defend themselves with the same phenomenal resistance which has been exhibited by the inspired populations of China and Russia-that same determination which was notably lacking in the peoples of, lulled Malaya...
...Pandit Nehru, treating Chiang like a spokesman of John Bull, replied that, "India will never grovel before the Japanese, but will utilize passive resistance." He added, however, that"... the moral factor is the dominating influence in this war, and it would make an immense difference if India and like countries were free." When he said this, he knew well that all India had ever gotten from the British was a series of double-crosses. During the last World War, India was promised "a greater degree of freedom." Then, at the Treaty of Westminster in 1931, the British conveniently forgot this...
This second World War is a war of politics as well as military strategy. The related stories of the Fall of Singapore and Life in the Raffles Hotel have knocked the props out of the white man's prestige in the whole of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek tried to make up for that loss of prestige by instilling fear of Jap invasion in the heart of India, and he was answered by an argument for passive resistance...