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...Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional troops into Burma. There they fight under their own commanders, who are in turn responsible to Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff, U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...three battalions of native Burmese riflemen, who were the exceptions to the Burmese natives' general indifference or hostility. The R.A.F had very little in the air at the start, practically nothing after a few weeks of combat. Because the Jap advance threatened the Burma Road to China, Chiang Kai-shek detailed his American Volunteer Group to Burma's air defense. The A.V.G. destroyed scores of Jap planes, but lost its own as well. By last week the A.V.G. was using any old crate at hand. Finally, the Japanese faced not more than three divisions of Chinese infantry, perhaps...
...Soviet spokesmen (including Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff in Washington) no longer cried specifically for a second front in Europe; they insisted that the one supremely vital front was in Russia, that the one Allied task, above all, was to supply that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst listed Britain's most important lines (the Indian Ocean, her route to Russia via Murmansk, her north Atlantic route from...
...stone houses and churches of the British stood, the Japs pressed the Chinese ever backward. There were some 20,000 Japanese; the weary young Chinese commander had only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman), don't fight!" But the Japs fought...
Stilwell's Business. There was one bright note: the cocky optimism of Lieut.-General Joseph W. Stilwell, hard-bitten, Chinese-speaking U.S. officer sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to command Chinese reinforcements in Burma (TIME, March 23). Last week Washington disclosed that General Stilwell was also in command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near...