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In addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
United Nations. China took no definite stand; but the Chungking press openly regretted the jailing of Congress leaders. Russia was too busy with war and Anglo-Soviet conferences to comment. The U.S., like China and Russia, is a wartime ally of Britain. Thus U.S. hands are tied officially.
Veteran, bespectacled General Ho Kuo-kwang, commander of China's air defenses, breathed these thankful words last week at a banquet in Chungking. All day there had been mass meetings, speeches, athletic contests. Forty-eight boys & girls, the youngest only seven, had leaped bravely from a parachute tower. Winner...
Burma's Premier U Saw, in British custody charged with plotting with the Japanese, has died in Egypt, "well-informed Burmese circles" told the United Press in Chungking. U Saw has not died, the Burma Office told U.P. in London.
Typical British Paramount product is the recently released ten-minute news review of 1941, in which a blistering backward glance at some recent British historical weaknesses and blunders turns into a rousing shout for a new order. Says Cummins' commentator John Stagg, to shots of Chungking bombings: "We know...