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Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
...Dutch East Indies and Malaya: Charles P. Taft, 46, brother of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and famed Cincinnati do-gooder, author of a book on city management, currently Director of the Office of Community War Services...
...Equally definite decisions have been made in the Pacific. General MacArthur clearly eliminated his southwestern theater as one of the chosen areas. That left two-Burma-Malaya, and the Central Pacific...
From India, Lord Louis Mountbatten could direct a campaign against Burma. His objectives: 1) a strong position in the rear flank of Japan's southern empire; 2) the Burma Road, over which supplies could be punched through to China; 3) possibly Malaya and Singapore, which could be exploited again as a naval base from which to harry the Jap lines to The Netherlands East Indies...
...great carrier Ark Royal, the cruiser Sydney and the battleship Barham were destroyed within eleven days in November 1941. On Dec. 7 came the U.S. disaster at Pearl Harbor, three days later the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya. The Royal Navy, upon which Britain depended for her strength and the U.S. for security in the Atlantic, faced the worst crisis since April...