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Inevitably, in advance of Java's fall, the Allies dissolved the unified system of command which they had established to direct the far Pacific war from Java. General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Supreme Commander, flew in a U.S. plane from Java to Ceylon, then to India and Burma, then into China, then back to India. Like writing on a wall, his travels traced the perils which the U.S., Great Britain and their allies must now face, the changes which they must deal with and somehow use for victory...
...Ceylon for Wavell. At the southern nub of India, where the Indian Ocean meets the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, lies a focal center of General Wavell's task: Britain's island of Ceylon...
Britain, fearing an imminent Japanese thrust to cut India's sea communications, was evacuating non-essential civilians from the strategic island of Ceylon Friday but on the other fronts of the vast Far Eastern war zone, the United Nations appeared, for the moment at least, to be holding their...
...other alternative that I believe possible," de Haas revealed, "is to assist England in holding India. We would probably have to do this operating from Ceylon and Calcutta and it would be largely a question of naval strength. Having held India, we could reinforce China and develop an eastern front on which to fight Japan...
...Ford took the Clipper westward 31,500 miles through twelve countries to New York. The Army's G-2 considered the course secret enough to forbid the crew's talking about it last week on their arrival. Probable route was New Caledonia, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, Arabia, Africa, the South Atlantic, and up from South America...