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...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
...Himalayan Headaches. The personal and technical difficulties which had to be surmounted to accomplish this job and keep it going were Himalayan. For Wedemeyer it meant a twelve-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job. Paper work and conferences were endless. The stream of visitors at the General's Chungking headquarters includes diplomats and production experts as well as military personnel. But from 4 to 5 each afternoon is reserved for the Generalissimo-and often Wedemeyer uses the hour to call on Chiang...
...Churchill's policy in the Far East was consistently at variance with U.S. policy. He could not get enough supplies for the Chinese. The trickle of supplies that used to be hauled agonizingly over the Burma Road became a dribble when it had to be flown over the Himalayan "hump." It is still a dribble. The Chinese, exhausted by seven years of almost singlehanded war against Japan, were reluctant to give General Stilwell the troops he wanted for the Burma offensive; the Japs might suddenly crack down on them in earnest. When the Japs began the drive that last...
...Mountbatten, to hear the news from southeast Asia at first hand. Those who were not asked to lunch plunged headlong into weighty speculations on present and future Allied strategy in Burma. General Wedemeyer, emerging from the White House, said nothing. Said the President: Supplies are reaching China over the Himalayan Hump in a "satisfactory" manner...
Still other copies of TIME are part of the vital supplies that unarmed, unescorted transport planes carry across Zero-infested Burma and over 17,000-ft. Himalayan passes to Kunming in China. These copies vault the top of the world and pass over "the worst stretch of country covered by any of the world's farflung war transport operations" to reach General Claire Chennault and his airmen. And every week 50 more copies reach key Chinese leaders via TIME Correspondent Teddy White in Chungking...