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...necessary to request advice from Ambassador Sawada, who is experienced in inter national foreign relations, and we have notified him of this fact. After conferring with Ambassador Sawada, domestic affairs, organization and selection of the foreign affairs personnel will be quickly decided upon." Burma's independence, Jap-style, was served up last week for good Japanese reasons: 1) propaganda to India (from Singapore, Indian Agitator Subhas Chandra Bose broadcast: "Now that India's neighbor Burma has achieved its freedom, nothing on earth can keep the Indians enslaved any longer"); 2) there is severe economic distress in Burma...
...beautiful. I very much like the look of it," said Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who just one year ago had led the first American attack against the Jap-held Solomon Islands. Now, back in the South Pacific, commanding the newly formed I Marine Amphibious Corps, he was making a shrewd observation on the success of the combined Army-Marine-Navy operations against Munda, once the strongest Jap base in the central Solo mons...
...bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far counted), sodden, mustard-colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison had possibly escaped, by barge or destroyer, in the artillery-haunted nights preceding Mun-da's fall...
Final Offensive. The final offensive had begun five days previously, when encircling U.S. troops broke through Jap lines on the north and south. Flame throwers proved the answer to the Jap's bombproof, duplex bunkers. Soldiers advanced under Jap guns and sprayed fire from two sides into the gun openings and eyeslits, scorching the Japs out. Ingenious mechanics improved on the tactic by affixing flame throwers to the light marine tanks. These blowtorched the path into Munda. In the last days little Jap resistance remained. The cumulative effect of the tremendous bombing and shelling to which Munda had been...
...first he found no Japs. "Sometimes," says he, "I think the 'Great Flying Boss in the Sky' was giving me a little more practice before he put me to the supreme test." But one day Scott flew along the Burma Road, caught a Jap column in a narrow defile...