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...Manzanar, General DeWitt may settle as many as 50,000 of the Coast's 112,353 Jap aliens and Nisei. Another 20,000 will be placed on the Colorado River Indian Reservation at Parker, Ariz...
...recalled a characteristic crack made by Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell, who now commands U.S. and Chinese forces in Burma. Said Uncle Joe: "The higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see of his backside." Uncle Joe said that many months ago. As the Jap climbed up the Burma pole last week, he saw much more of the Allies' backsides than they...
...Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped Toungoo to the west, then wheeled at right angles, took the airport north of the town and cut off the Chinese from the British. Surrounded on three sides, the Chinese fought for 60 desperate hours without rest. Then reinforcements arrived and they broke through to begin a retirement. According...
...British had sworn to scorch the earth of Malaya, but the job was badly done. They scarcely singed the edges, left many a handsome prize for the oncoming Jap. U.S. Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, thought he could see the reason for the British failure: ignorance and insufficient explosives. He ordered an immediate training program to acquaint every combat unit under his command with the ins-&-outs of demolition...
...Jap-from Rangoon, which he already holds, from western Burma, toward which he is driving-threatens the two great jute ports. Calcutta and Chittagong. Chittagong, on the eastern rim of India's coast, has already been partly evacuated. Even without that immediate threat, the shipping shortage itself has cut into jute supplies. Ships from India must carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India...