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...General Douglas MacArthur was officially head of all United Nations forces. But Australians, demanding more voice in strategy decisions in Washington (and likely to get it), would also have ideas on how their home troops should be used. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, controlled U.S. forces in India, Burma and China, as well as the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma. But most of China's forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan peninsula...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week appointed a U.S. Army officer his Chief of Staff. The officer: peppery Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...recent Indian cartoon showed the Viceroy hunting, with the legend: "This week the Viceroy shot down 247 enemy partridges." His persistence in official dignities has come in for criticism. He still uses a ten-car viceregal train, steps from it to scarlet carpets. Last month, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek paid his momentous visit to India, the Viceroy sent an aide to welcome him instead of going himself...
...Well-Wishers. Joseph Stalin and his Red Army received congratulations from ranking Allied powers of the world. Douglas MacArthur sent his compliments from beleaguered Bataan: "The hopes of civilization rest on the worthy banners of the courageous Russian Army." From China's Chiang Kai-shek came a fine blend of commendation and suggestion: "I strongly believe the spiritual affinity between our two armies is bound to become practical collaboration in action...
With the authority of one of the Allies' two greatest fighting leaders, in a fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...