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...General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political and economic cooperation in the prosecution of the Greater East Asia war. Then the brave new Burma of Dr. Ba Maw declared war on the U.S. and Britain...
...They were opposed to the New Deal's centralization of government. Straw-in-the-wind: one of the strongest States' rights declarations came from Utah's Herbert B. Maw, longtime coattail-rider to the New Deal...
...ferryboat walloped through the choppy waters of a big U.S. harbor. Except for the riding lights of the ships in the stream there was blackout. Nudged by a hard-breathing tug, the potbellied ferry tied up to the pier and from her maw a soldier appeared. He was followed by another, then more, finally hundreds. Each man bent under a staggering load-150 lb. -as he filed through the warehouse...
...Bernard Baruch, I think, who said in the last war: 'The maw of war is insatiable.' It is even truer today...
...Allies Can Do It. The Japs soon disillusioned the Burmese. Jap soldiers looted and raped. The Japanese made Puppet Ba Maw the nominal dictator of a nominally independent Burma, but they broke many of their promises. Many Burmese, says Author Thien Pe, would now turn against the Japanese and fight with the British if London would give the Burmese people any real encouragement...