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Inevitably, in advance of Java's fall, the Allies dissolved the unified system of command which they had established to direct the far Pacific war from Java. General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Supreme Commander, flew in a U.S. plane from Java to Ceylon, then to India and Burma, then into China, then back to India. Like writing on a wall, his travels traced the perils which the U.S., Great Britain and their allies must now face, the changes which they must deal with and somehow use for victory...
...base for supplies and offensive action, it loomed even above remote Australia (see p. 21). To hold India, to bring its masses into the war, Britain must pay a price, both politically (see ,p. 26) and militarily. General Wavell, therefore, was taking no back seat when he resumed his command of India's (and Burma's) forces...
Australians for Australia. Simply by omitting Australia from his prodigious swing, General Wavell accented that menaced Dominion's status as an important and lonely zone. Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
Over the Mountains. Southern Burma was all but gone. General Sir Archibald Wavell, taking over the India-Burma command (see p. 19), had to assume that it was gone. He had then to decide what more to defend for the salvation of India...
Home to the U.S. this week came Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, who commanded the Allied Fleet in the far Pacific until mid-February. Healthy but worn after a bout of food poisoning, 64-year-old Admiral Hart headed for Washington, then for his farm at Sharon, Conn, "to get a little sleep." He said that he was not really sick; he was just very tired when he asked to be relieved of his command...