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...other assumption is that the Allies could cut through Burma into China and strike at Japan overland before other steps are taken in lower Asia. The trouble with this assumption, at least until vastly greater weight can be shifted from Europe and until a vastly more efficient arterial system is built up in India, is that it would leave intact that very intricate and dangerously efficient system of supply below Formosa, taking in Singapore, Siam, Indo-China and lower Burma. The Japanese would be able to move forces on the Allied right flank far faster than the Allies could move...
...problems were clear. First & foremost, with good will and common sense, order had to be brought into the chaotic, overlapping organization of the continental front against Japan. Another problem was Burma. The men at Chungking certainly weighed the great difficulties of a campaign to re-establish an overland link with China. But, whatever they decided, the Jap had already struck the first blow...
...General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...down hurriedly into the tall Kunai grass of the valley. Australian artillerymen with their guns dropped down after them. The Aussies had had only a week's training and only one practice jump, but they took the leap gamely. Australian pioneers, who had made a five-day trek overland, joined the U.S. and Australian paratroopers...