Reporter's Report

Into Washington's Boiling Field, on a four-engined bomber from India, came Eric Sevareid, crack CBS reporter; within four hours he was popped before a microphone to give these sharp-cut impressions of the India-Burma-China theater:

Jungle War. "The Japanese and the jungles--both are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new Ledo Road . . . from India."

Military Strategy. "Any campaign Mountbatten leads from India cannot be a decisive blow at the Japs [and] can hardly get more decisive results than MacArthur's present campaign. . . . It's as clear as crystal that the great blow must come far nearer to the Japanese islands."

Moral Strategy. "America's moral standing with many of the peoples of India, Burma and the contiguous areas is falling rapidly. Many intelligent, articulate people there have concluded that Britain is calling the tune as to strategy and the postwar destinies of these peoples, and they believe we have accepted the role of a subdued second fiddle."

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