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...Despite the photograph released by the Japanese and purporting to show General Jonathan Wainwright surrendering at Corregidor to General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command...
...Jap front in Burma had grown relatively static. Any day the Jap might burst into action, lance north into China to cut the rudimentary land supply lines from the west, now under development, or burst west into febrile, ill-prepared India. On the sea the Jap's teeth had been well drawn. Until he could work out another attack that might win by surprise, he could well devote his first attention to land drives...
Stronger Tea. Up to last week censors in China had allowed U.S. correspondents to identify two Army bomber units and one pursuit group. General Chennault said that this initial force's job would be to soften up Jap strongholds in China, put the Japanese on the air defensive. More U.S. planes and crews will have to complete the long journeys to Africa, India and China before the Army Air Forces can take a decisive role in China's war or carry the war to Japan itself...
...Allied troops to remain in India (TIME, July 13), he believes that immediate political independence is of the utmost importance for India's defense. On this subject, Jawaharlal Nehru made a shrewd psychological point last week. Said he: "Submission to England develops a spirit of submission to the Jap...
...back after we had managed to get two hours' sleep and from then on we worked steadily, with only two hours' rest, for 36 hours. Case moved us off to a child welfare house in town. We had just begun operating there when a lot of Jap planes went over...