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...Chinese Army units under Stilwell's command were one day's march behind us when we crossed the Chindwin, but we have had no news of them since then. We have reason to believe that the greater portion of the Chinese Army, except the unit left in the hills of the Shan States at the time of the Jap drive toward Lashio, are safe...
...rank-&-file have no stomach for fighting for Britain and the U.S." The President had to think more than twice about Mexico's rank-&-file, for it was no secret that many of them still fondly recalled the liberal regime of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas, now in command of the West Coast region...
Last week President Roosevelt took back his appointment (TIME, April 13) of Major General James Henry Burns to be chief of Army Ordnance. Leaving General Burns as munitions man on the United Nations High Command,* the President chose sandy-haired, gimlet-eyed, rough-tongued Levin H. Campbell Jr., 55, to run Ordnance after June 1, when Major General Charles M. Wesson's four-year term expires...
Admiral Thomas Charles Hart already had a Distinguished Service Medal, ". . . for distinguished service afloat in command of submarines engaged in operations against the enemy" in World War I. Last week President Roosevelt personally pinned on him the Navy Gold Star, for ''exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet...
...That President Roosevelt wanted the world to know that his friend Tommy Hart had not let his country down, even though he mysteriously resigned his command of Allied naval forces on Feb. 11, before the sea battle of Java...