Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
...anybody seen U Saw? What had become of the crafty, witty Premier of Burma who needled the British Empire in its hour of greatest trial? He had dropped from public view in December, 1941. U.S. officials, who could not learn his whereabouts from the British, guessed he was still jailed somewhere in Africa...
That there must remain occupation forces in the lands of the defeated peoples is unquestioned. . . . Now analyze the location of the remainder of our troops. Many are obscured away in the China-Burma-India Theater. In China, a great civil war is just in its preliminary stages and our men are in the ringside seats. In India, the situation is even more ominous, if that is possible...
...days later Navy Secretary Frank Knox called Richardson in, told him the President was afraid the Japanese might take "drastic action" when Britain re-opened the Burma Road to China. In such an event, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to set up a Navy patrol which would cut off all traffic between Japan and the Americas. The Admiral was "amazed." Stubbornly he began arguing again-the fleet was not ready for such a task. If it tried, war would surely result. Loud, hearty Frank Knox was annoyed. Said he: "Richardson, we have never been ready, but we have always...
More serious loss to plantation owners is the labor needed to produce the prewar peak of 1.3 million tons. The Japs rounded up thousands of natives, sent them into Burma to build airstrips and military roads. More than half, said Cake, are believed to have died from ill-treatment. He estimated that it would take three to five years to get production back to normal...