Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...
...moved north toward the oilfields and the mountain passes at the junction of the India-Burma-China border, he took with him a rabble of Burmese traitors, looters from the slums of Rangoon, red-brown Karen tribesmen who have brandished their sharp heavy dahs at the British, off & on, for more than a half-century. Between thrusts, the Jap rested in the zeyats which Burmese Buddhists build for the ease of travelers and of their own souls in the next world...
There were bright spots in the picture, however. In his weekend communique Douglas MacArthur included the dramatic story of non-Christian Igorot native tribesmen who, in an offensive over rough, matted terrain, mounted U.S. tanks like so many half-nude jockeys to direct American drivers inside. "When the attack was over," said the General, "the remnants of the tanks and of the Igorots were still there, but the 20th Japanese Infantry Regiment was completely annihilated. . . . When you tell that story, stand in tribute to those gallant Igorots...
Other Moslems who interested the Nazis were the wild, proud Afghan tribesmen on the western borders of India. Poetic handbills printed in the Pushtu, Urdu, and Brahui languages urged the tribesmen to a jihad (holy war) "to strike off the Anglo-Saxon yoke," promised them heaping banquets and succulent maidens in the soft lands of India. Berlin proclaimed the "independence of India" from the Hotel Kaiserhop, relayed applause for the proclamation from "204 Hindu nationalists...