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When the smoke cleared, ten or more U.S. fighter craft and several cargo planes had been destroyed on the ground. The Japs had attacked on schedule as the rain-laden monsoon blew itself out. Next day United Nations planes struck back, raiding Jap bases in Burma...
Since May the monsoon had been India's best shield against the Japs. With that protection gone until another May, the question was whether enemy raids foretold a major Jap offensive. Out to explore possibilities went U.S. Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, chief of the 10th Air Force command, which embraces India, Burma and part of China. After a lengthy air tour General Bissell said that he had found no indication that the Japanese "are momentarily able to take on any large offensive...
Queried as to the probability of a Japanese invasion in the near future, Runganadhan said that the Indians expect an enemy thrust as soon as the present monsoon season is over, but he expressed his doubts as to the ability of the Japanese to launch an invasion at any time...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...
...Carnegie Hall bar and Joe Romano's Restaurant around the corner, many an oldtimer with a battered fiddle case shook his head sadly over his beer. Summer was over for the Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning...