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...view of what was happening on India's eastern border, New Delhi's communiqués seemed unduly confident, unduly self-assured. By them, Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell, his deputy, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and his India-Burma-China theater commander, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten almost daily assured the world that there was no cause for alarm. But Washington was worried, anyhow. And so was London...
...outcome of the battle for Imphal could not be judged last week. The British were optimistic. In India General Auchinleck blandly announced: "Our commanders have no intention that Imphal should fall into the enemy's hands." Pessimists, remembering the optimism of Singapore, wished he had said nothing. But American observers on the scene were also inclined to think that Kawabe might have overreached himself...
...young (41) Senator Lodge this was a second appearance in uniform. His first was before the gates of Cairo, when General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's Britons were falling back. Major Lodge accompanied the first U.S. tanks in Africa-but he was not in one of the three tanks which fought their first battle there. On his return to the U.S., he and other Congressmen went on inactive status. Lodge got himself re-elected to the Senate for another six years. After 18 months of "grave thought," he had decided that "given my age and military training...
...Bengal's capital, Calcutta, thousands are still dying of hunger. Grim, hardworking men of Auchinleck's Army, aided by official and private agencies, belatedly distribute what food they can get. It does not add up to much-half a pound of grain per mouth per day. Many thousands of Indians, because of debility and disease, are beyond such help. But last week an improvement was noticed: famine deaths in Calcutta had fallen from over 200 to about 100 daily...
Significant Separation. In British, Indian, U.S. and Chinese eyes, the most significant thing in the Indian shake-up was the separate East Asia command for operations against Japan. Neither General Wavell nor General Auchinleck would head that command. Sir Archibald, who chased and was chased in North African desert warfare, fared poorly in the last Burmese jungle campaign (TIME, May 31). A new great Allied offensive to reopen the Burma Road to China might be launched in the fall, and its commander might be Chinese-speaking U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. But as Viceroy, Wavell would also play...