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...regular yearly quota basis (2% of the immigrant's nationals residing in the U.S. in 1890, which, in China's case, totals 105 a year). Passed along to a receptive Senate for approval, the repeal measure would counteract, to some extent, the waves of Jap propaganda-that the U.S. thinks of the Chinese as members of an inferior race...
...will and common sense, order had to be brought into the chaotic, overlapping organization of the continental front against Japan. Another problem was Burma. The men at Chungking certainly weighed the great difficulties of a campaign to re-establish an overland link with China. But, whatever they decided, the Jap had already struck the first blow...
...Bridgehead Lost. To China, the Jap blow was serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13-mile bridgehead including two ferry crossings, on the Salween River's west bank...
...Jap could seize the ferry slips on the Salween's west bank, he would achieve a substantial success. For the disputed bridgehead could play a key role in an Allied push into northern Burma...
...water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone down under her guns in her short career of headlong action...