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FOUR(Elie GWpgrajrff-Mnrali*rHfe Qto rRI-tfTATfi DAILY Established In 1836 Leased wire services ol The Associated Press, international News Service, and United Press. Members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Assocla tion and the Audit Bureau of Circulation.Fight for a Life-LineToo little attention, perhaps, has been given the Chinese offensive on the Salween River. The strategy is to restore China’s land lifeline to India—the famous Burma road which, on its Chinese end, was hewed out through the mountain fastnesses largely with primitive tools in yie hands of a host of men, women and children after the enemy had occupied their country’s ports.China’s problem is to stand off the Japs pending arrival of all-out Allied help. In order to hang on she must have supplies. Her only feasible communication with the outside world is by air to India. Aerial transport is moving much material, but she’s in dire need of heavy equipment, like artillery, and that calls for ground transport, which means a highway to India.So the Celestials are seeking to solve their problem by an offensive with upwards of 20,000 men across the great Salween River near where it crosses into Japanese held northern Burma. The objective is to drive the invaders out of that zone. That will permit a joining up of the severed end of the old Burma Road in China with the new Ledo Road, which American engineers built up through India and then extended a considerable distance into the northern top of Burma.This offensive is racing against time to complete the operation before the arrival of the monsoon deluge. If the Allies can evict the enemy quickly they may be able to effect a junction of the two roads before the monsoon gets too bad.It’s a vital effort for the cause of the United Nations. When we talk of restoring China’s “life-line” w8 doh’t use the phrase lightly. The Burma Road—inadequate as it was to meet demands—was the isolated country’s main artery. The Allies can’t get along without China in the war against Japan. o--man, and that won’t help promote! this measure with the Republicans.1 But there are many prominent Republicans who hold the same view, arrived at from different directions. Their argument is that the President will write his own treaties without even Senate consideration unless the rule is liberalized. The President can do this under executive powers by breaking the treaties down into little bits and approving them under various claims of authority. Or, if he dare not risk that, he can have them passed by majority Congressional vote in the form of separate pieces of legislation by carefully avoiding the use of the word “treaty.”--o-Duck Your HeadIn Buffalo a helicopter was flown indpors in a demonstration. We’ve b^en asking ourselves why ever since, is this perilous pastime to be part of our post-war life? If so, we hereby close the windows, crawl under the bed, and pray for the status quo.-o-It’s odd that insomnia nevprtroubles a person when it’s time to get up.-o-Admiral Toyoda is the new Jap admiral. His first move will be to find the Jap navy.-o-Fast company seldom leads to the same sort of friends.-o-Wasting energy is a chaperon apologizing for falling asleep In company.-o-Rep. Martin Dies— Trifles Were TreasonBy PETER EDSON Washington CorrespondentSo Martin Dies is letting go the tail of that bear he has been wrest-H1Hlt;or3bPCwbuRethlt;paallnosopustipumi
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Thu, May 18, 1944
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