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Show of Force. The double policy is enormously demanding on French manpower. Quadrillage will require 200,000 men. Grenouillage requires another 150,000. By mid-May, the Mollet government has promised 75,000 men drawn from reserves to add to the 210,000 France already has in Algeria, another 100,000 more by fall, if needed. Says Mollet hopefully: "We want to show force so we don't have to use it-or use it as little as possible...
With only two weeks' rest, the Marauders were next flung into a drive on the Myitkyina airstrip itself. Against the odds, they captured it in mid-May 1944, just as Merrill returned to lead them-only to suffer a second heart attack soon after. When Japanese reinforcements arrived, a major battle developed in which the disease-ridden Marauders (now only 1,310 strong) were ordered to participate with far larger conventional forces of Chinese and British Empire troops. In the desperate Allied effort to hold on, a call for every able-bodied man forced many incapacitated Marauders back...
...mid-May, the passport had still not come. But every time Huddleston wrote or phoned the Ministry of the Interior, he merely got the stock answer that the matter was under consideration. Huddleston wired to a member of Parliament, and was promised an "investigation." He appealed to the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, eventually got back from the Ministry the answer: "The matter is receiving attention." Finally he sent off one more telegram, and this time he received a letter from the Native Affairs Minister's private secretary accusing him of "crude methods." By last week it seemed obvious that...
...what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
While no one could say exactly what course tax legislation will take, most of the arrows last week pointed this way: 1) House leadership will let Dan Reed's bill come out in mid-May, and the House will pass it overwhelmingly; 2) the Senate will study the bill for a month, then rewrite it to postpone cuts in both income and excess-profits taxes until next January; 3) the House will scream but, under pressure from the Administration to balance the budget, will finally pass the Senate version...