Word: assam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilots winging over the head-hunter-inhabited Naga Hills on a routine patrol flight toward Burma were the first to spot the Japanese attack force heading into India. A few Jap planes were drawn into battle, but most of them roared on toward the Assam terminus of the aerial Burma Road...
Whose Offensive? His assurance increased speculation on the possibility of a United Nations offensive. Britain's Commander in Chief for India, General Sir Archibald Wavell, was back in New Delhi from the Burma border. In Assam he had talked to officers who trekked, singly or in pairs, into Occupied Burma and brought out news that the Burmese were hungry, restless and unhappier under the Japs than they ever were under the British...
...Then? New Delhi correspondents were allowed to cable that U.S. ground forces had completed a network of airdromes and supply points in India and Assam. London broke the news that the battleships Warspite, Royal Sovereign and Resolution and the aircraft carrier Illustrious were in the Indian Ocean...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...
Churchill gave one fact that had not been acknowledged by the Raj in India, or admitted to the outside world through India's tight censorship: Japanese fifth-column work in the northeastern (invasion) provinces of Bengal and Assam has been on a "widely extended scale and with special direction to strategic points." In spite of the obvious reminder of Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma, Churchill summed up the Indian situation as "improving and, on the whole, reassuring...