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When the road is done; it will link the Calcutta railhead of Ledo in India with China. Only then will Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and his Chinese allies coming from Yunnan have made their objective. The road will also complete a backbreaking, distasteful job for dambuilder Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick-now a highway builder and the boss of Pick's Pike...
...chemical plant. Dr. Matthai, a Christian, educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford's Balliol College, distinguished himself as an official of the Indian Government before joining Tata in 1940. A believer in freedom for women, he sent his only daughter to convent schools in Calcutta and Bombay, and finally...
...ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long...
...Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others are loaded into little Army liaison planes, flown over the jungles and dropped by parachute to servicemen...
Said Food Secretary R. H. Hutchings: "Bengal now has ample food. . . ." Added Calcutta officials: "Famine mortality is now down to 30 per day." By last week it was beyond dispute that Viceroy Wavell had done a good eleventh-hour job on an almost hopelessly bungled situation. He had brought an old soldier's efficiency to bear in the distribution of foods among the starving...