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Because he is too big to be put under even the Wavell hat, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was given supreme command over land and air forces of the Allies in the China area. Besides-and this was a significant clue as to the possible operation of the joint command-the Gissimo will lead in "such portions of Indo-China and Thailand as may be available to troops of the united nations...
Inexorable Quadruplets. Thus the Allied world greeted a piece of precedent-shattering news last week by examining and approving the personalities involved. There had been instances of more or less joint command before, but never before had one man been in command of all the weapons of several nations in a whole sector of the earth...
Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...Philippines' supply line at Wake and Guam. From then on it was a desperate, stubborn, downhill retreat before a foe of overwhelming numbers. The Jap admitted to the folks back home that his own losses were "colossal," that U.S. and Filipino troops fought "like demons." But he had command...
Somewhere in eastern Asia, probably at Rangoon, members of the Unified Allied Supreme Command (see p. 17) met this week to make ready an Allied success. There a good man reported to his chief on one of the shortest, strangest and grimmest commands ever held by a British general...