Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack us?" Old Soldier Marshall, soon to retire, had an answer. He did not know any more now then he knew even in 1940, when he was asked the same question. "I did not anticipate [then] that in the near future American soldiers would fight in the heart of Burma. . . ." He had another answer: "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly, cost us millions of lives and billions of treasure...
Actually, WPB may be painting the picture blacker than it really is. Its dire predictions are based on the still unproved belief that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...
...cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...
...enough to fill a half-dozen filing cabinets. They were the dispatches that some 80 TIME correspondents had filed from London during the blitz, from Manila as the Japanese struck, from Bataan before it fell, from Libya as Rommel lunged at Cairo, from battlefields in the Aleutians, in Burma, in Sicily, in Italy, in Russia, in the South Pacific...
...Spread along the ultimate peninsula, of Southeast Asia, from southern Burma through the Kra Isthmus to Malaya, were perhaps 100,000 Japanese, including two divisions for the defense of Singapore...