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...also acutely reminded the Allies that every mile of the Japanese advance in Burma was also an advance on India. As a further reminder the Japanese next day bombed two towns on India's mainland. Britain and the U.S. had very little time left for Sir Stafford Cripps's war of wits and good will in New Delhi, even to move up the air reinforcements which alone could save Burma, the Bay of Bengal's approaches to India, and one of the last routes of supply to China...
...this week began, Sir Stafford was still the central actor; he might yet bring off a climax worthy of the times...
...history thus refused the spectacular, it was partly because the principal actor, Sir Stafford Cripps, was anything but glamorous. He stretched out the hand of British friendship, begging India to "accept and trust" it, but the proffered hand hung limp and ungrasped in the hot air of New Delhi...
...Asked if a guarantee could be had from President Roosevelt, Sir Stafford said: "I am afraid you won't get it." *India's chief pro-Axis propagandist, fat, fluent Subhas Chandra Bose, onetime Congress leader, was last week rumored killed in an airplane crash
...send Churchill out of No. 10 Downing St., if not out of the Cabinet altogether. The Rightists would make a last-ditch fight to have Sir John Anderson (perhaps the most powerful behind-the-scenes Cabinet figure) or Oliver Lyttelton named Prime Minister, but the odds were on Sir Stafford Cripps, especially if his mission to India was a success...