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Tunner's success with the Ferrying Command brought him a brigadier general's star. In August 1944 he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump" between Assam and Kunming in China. The month that Will Tunner took command, the Hump lift carried 23,700 tons of supplies; eleven months later, it moved 69,300 tons. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, then commander of U.S. forces in China: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
...Assam, a province of India...
Only a day after his blast at Pakistan's "aggression," Nehru gracefully accepted Pakistan's gift of 375 tons of rice for relief of the Assam earthquake victims...
...last fortnight registered an earthquake so violent that the record of its convulsions ran off the paper. Because of the incomplete recordings, seismologists were unable at first to determine the quake's location, later reckoned that it must have hit hardest in southeastern Tibet and in northern Assam (a province of India). Communications with this wild mountain region, always poor, had stopped abruptly; the extent of the damage done by the quake could only be guessed at. By last week, frightening evidence of the quake's dreadful work in Assam had begun to reach the outer world...
...occasion was the eleventh annual conference of the All-India Adibasi Mahasabha, made up of delegates representing India's 25 million aborigines who are scattered among 176 tribes from Assam in the northeast to Madras in the deep south. One-fifth of India's first settlers live in the hillside jungles, many still dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis...