Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...prove to be in his new job, no one could tell last week. Like all men entering on new duties, he was praised. But the only true test would be his performance-the immediate index of which would be results in Malaya, the ultimate index results in all eastern Asia...
...main fame is based on his brilliant work before and at Dunkirk. As Lord Gort's Chief of Staff-the same job in France as this one in Asia-he carried the entire responsibility for the details of withdrawal. With scarcely any sleep at all, he moved G.H.Q. eight times in 20 days, took the worst news without blinking, seldom referred to maps because he carried a large-scale one around in his head...
Last week, like a recording needle caught in a groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half years of war: swift deployment, individual initiative, shelter-and-assault. But only at Changsha were the Japanese faced with soldiers who had experience against the Japanese and who know how to apply the countertactics of dispersion, road destruction and depth-defense...
...greatest compliment the Chungking conference could be given-since it recognized the threat of joint Allied action in southeast Asia-was paid by the Japanese. They started a new offensive in central China, aimed at much-aimed-at Changsha. The Jap, despite the only proven use of gas in World War II, had already failed three times to take Changsha. This time he may not be so anxious to get that provincial capital as to get Chiang's mind off cooperation...