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...East. The Allies could now plan, as they could not at the time of Casablanca, for the job to be done in the Far East. It was therefore significant that Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault had been called in from India and China to join the discussions. Last week, Winston Churchill sent Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a message which could be taken as the first fruit of the Washington conference: ". . . The United Nations . . . will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China." President Roosevelt, in a similar...
...supply road to China lies through Jap-held Burma, where the British had failed in their preliminary campaign to win a bridgehead for later operations (TIME, April 19). Last week the Commander of the Fourteenth, Major General Claire Chennault, and his superior in the China theater, Lieut. General Joseph E. Stilwell, undoubtedly included the prospects for reopening Burma in the agenda of their staff talks in Washington...
...Orlando, Fla., an Army flying ace with 13 Jap planes to his credit, Colonel Robert L. Scott, former aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault in China, boiled over in anger: "I know I could do one service. . . . Destruction with six machine guns ... of John L. Lewis. I definitely believe that by such a coldblooded act I could rid the country of a man who acts as though he were in the pay of the Japanese Government...
Home from China to confer with their Commander in Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...