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...will manipulate the strings of Burma-at-war is Japan's "Special Ambassador" Renzo Sawada, who will stay on in Rangoon as permanent Ambassador from Japan. Burma's new Foreign Minister, Thakin Nu, blandly declared: "Burma is without experience regarding foreign policy. Consequently it is necessary to request advice from Ambassador Sawada, who is experienced in inter national foreign relations, and we have notified him of this fact. After conferring with Ambassador Sawada, domestic affairs, organization and selection of the foreign affairs personnel will be quickly decided upon." Burma's independence, Jap-style, was served up last...
Burma was not new to the doctor - his grandfather had been a Baptist missionary there, his father was still a missionary in Rangoon, he himself had been born in Burma. But Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully...
...India, he was finally accredited. He saw jungle fighting, in his spare time interviewed maharajas. He went along when U.S. bombers plastered Rangoon, finally went across the Himalayas into China...
...Java fell first and they went instead to Karachi, India. There they found ten B-17s, picked up some dislocated combat crews who had come out of Java and the Philippines, and from the U.S. via Africa. At last the Bastards were ready to fly. They started by bombing Rangoon and the Andaman Islands, and ranged across China to Hankow...
...short and dismal history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...