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...Winnipeg to Miami. Aside from his air-sick family, General MacArthur had a good reason for making it by train and highway; this route from Australia's desolate northern deserts to the populous south was the most important, the most difficult military and supply route in his new command area...
Stilwell's Business. There was one bright note: the cocky optimism of Lieut.-General Joseph W. Stilwell, hard-bitten, Chinese-speaking U.S. officer sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to command Chinese reinforcements in Burma (TIME, March 23). Last week Washington disclosed that General Stilwell was also in command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near...
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...Your Excellency: your duty has been performed. Accept our sincere advice and save the lives of those officers and men under your command. International law would be strictly adhered to. . . . We call upon you to consider this proposition. . . . If a reply to this advisory note is not received . . . by noon March 22, 1942, we shall consider ourselves at liberty to take any action whatsoever...
...could be made with the Middle East's many national, racial and religious conflicts. It was not only a question of the pan-Arab dream. Turks feared Russians, and Iranians abhorred them. Syrians disliked French. Arabs and Jews were ancient enemies. Arabs loathed Turks. The Allied Middle Eastern command last week thought it would be lucky if it could keep the Middle East audience quiet while it battled Hitler on the stage...