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...three strategists had three tough problems to solve. Should Britain risk her Indian defenses to bolster Burma? Should the U.S. rush in more air power besides the 100 "volunteer" pilots of the International Tigers (who last week helped shoot down nine Japanese planes over Rangoon)? Should China mount an offensive into Indo-China, or rush troops into Burma, or even to Malaya? The conferees announced the creation of a Military Council, the first working body for joint action in the war. But their strategic decisions necessarily remained a military secret...
...consolidate all Allied forces-Army, Navy, Air forces of the British, Dutch, Chinese, U.S. and possibly Russian-under one supreme amphibious commander in each great geographical area. For instance: to make General Douglas MacArthur commander of all anti-Axis forces in the South Pacific, his command to stretch from Rangoon to Honolulu...
Everything was ready. From Rangoon to Honolulu, every man was at battle stations. And Franklin Roosevelt had to return to his. This was the last act of the drama...
...Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present...
...unable to raise more than a tepid temperature for Britain's struggle. The Burmese are isolationists. Some Londoners, however, thought that Premier U Saw felt less isolationist after he had seen the husks of some of London's buildings. His own capital, spire-templed Rangoon, is only 700 miles from a Japanese plane base at Pnom-Penh, Indo-China...