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...diplomats and officers who have talked with Stalin say that he knows more than most Washington and London officials about Allied performance, personalities and weaknesses. He has on the end of his blunt tongue the exact dates of and reasons for the fall of Bataan, Corregidor, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rangoon. He says: "Timoshenko is my George Washington" (because Washington retired from Philadelphia to Valley Forge but still won the Revolutionary War); and: "Zhukov, he is my George B. McClellan-except that he has never lost a battle" (McClellan always hollered for more men, more weapons, more supply, more cavalry...
...limited nature of General Wavell's attack in Burma was now clear. He wanted Akyab. He wanted it as an air base for attacks on Rangoon and Mandalay, and so that the Japs could not have it for attacks on Chittagong and Calcutta. His advance last week crept forward without major Japanese opposition but in the face of a bitterly resisting terrain to within 25 miles of the objective. To support him Allied flyers pasted Japanese bases at Heho and Shwebo, near Mandalay. They attacked Magwe, 128 miles east of Akyab, three times in two days. And they attacked...
...discovered Publisher Smyth's colleague, Canadian-born Walker Grey Matheson, 40, last week in Nelson Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He was writing short-wave broadcasts about the Far East for Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack...
...Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum engineer named Walter Leslie Forster. He had done such a job of smashing that "experts believe some of the oil wells will never produce oil again and it will be a long time before the Japs get any oil from the rest. At Rangoon we did what we could to destroy dock facilities. I doubt whether Rangoon has yet been used by the Japs...
...when the trucks are U.S. Army trucks. They go aboard like planes or tanks-ready for use in any emergency. One reason is obvious: Suppose a shipment of CKDs to Rangoon, where there were adequate assembly facilities, had to be diverted after Rangoon's fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army...