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Broad-shouldered, stolid General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, President of Bolivia, last week led off a parade of foreign chiefs of state on the Roosevelt guest list.* He met his host on the south lawn of the White House, that evening was guest of honor at a state dinner...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
...also fostered an underground Burma Independence Army and acquired the support of Dr. Ba Maw, a former Premier whom the British once imprisoned. Thirty-two nationalists were smuggled to Japan, there trained as pro-Japanese agitators. Inept British administrators did nothing effective to offset these preparations. "Meanwhile," wrote Thien Pe, "British imperialism was fighting on three fronts in Burma. It justly hated the pro-Jap elements. It openly disdained the freedom-loving neutrals, and it foolishly mistrusted the Communists." According to Thien Pe. Burmese Communists consistently opposed collaboration with Tokyo and could have helped the British...
...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...
Certainly the British were not doing well in Burma last week; the preliminary campaign there had failed (see p. 32). Author Thien Pe's belief is that Allied armies never can do well without help from the Burmese. And, said he: "If Britain hopes to gain the active support of the Burmese she must capture their imagination...