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Said the Admiral: the Japanese advance into Manipur 1) had not dislocated the Allied strategy schedule in Burma-India, 2) had not delayed Stilwell, probably helped him, 3) did not hamper air supply to the Raiders...
...three points near the Burma-India line the Japanese counterattacked. They crossed the Chindwin River in force, at week's end were almost across the Indian border to Manipur. If they succeeded in reaching their goal (Stilwell's and Chennault's supply lines), the Japs might make the other actions look like tea parties, might nullify all Allied gains since they ran Stilwell out of Burma two years...
History was repeating itself in the sawtooth mountains and jungled valleys of the Arakan where the Burma-India border touches the Bay of Bengal...
...campaign had begun hopefully. British and Indian troops captured Maungdaw, close by the Burma-India border. Patrols moved south, following the west side of the Mayu ridge. Other British columns swung east toward Buthidaung to protect the left flank...
...China on India. Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's right-hand man and China's great & good friend, the Chungking press has "hoped" for mediation. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, director of political affairs, stated the Chinese position when he said that the conflict is not a British domestic question, but a moral...
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