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...three purposes behind his drive. First he wanted Rangoon, unloading point for the supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...
...United Nations were not idle. Down from China marched troops of Chiang Kaishek, tattered, road-worn, weather-beaten and fit. They traveled in the classic Chinese manner-on foot and incredibly fast-covered 1,000 miles before going into position. Probably they were somewhere on the upper Thailand border, from which more Japs might still issue to strike directly at the Burma Road...
...watched American-made Brewster Buffaloes and Curtiss P-40s swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft on the ground, fired gasoline stores, burned down hangars. This successful attack from the air may have been a hint of the shape of things to come...
...handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful...
Married. T. L. Soong, 48, Chinese financier, brother of Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi, 23-year-old Manhattan art student, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, general manager of the Central Bank of China; in Manhattan...