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what lies behind the Berlin crisis.
Is cast, and It's sink or swim.
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He
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Je!
The Stilwell Papers
will be
went up
ment)
THIS
ran two Jap positions.
I kidded
heavily.
full
can't
MAY
dils-
But the nervous wear and tear won't give me my doughboys keep going all night. We muy strain and worry-If the troops, is terrible, Pity the poor com-
but they send mo some dogs. It huve 80th (Regiment] in by are undepenfable, where are we?
dificult to get them morning-WILL
BURN I'm looking forward to a
7 Wish it manding officer.j
[UNDATED 1 PSYCHOLOGY
educated on the different smells UP THE LIMEYS.
stop to this business. COMMAND-A good cam-
Myitkyina field cloned to ' C-47 OF
of Americans-black at white Monsoon coming in on South would pour right now. mander is a man of high charne--Chinese, Kuchins, Nagus, In Burma now., Myitkylus due for
[troop carrier planes). Sent (Bri- Subscription Rules:
Garos, Darjeelings, Bur monsoon] Jane 1.
MAY 22-BLACK MONDAY. Hndler General Hayden Boatner lians, HK$18.00 ter(this is the most important
Bad news from Mitch. Now in to Myitkyina], with Hu' uni H.K.$36.00 attribute), with power of incision
mese and Japs. The British of
MAY 10-Not
much sleep. they saw 800 Jups go into Char-P'an. Boatner back at 7:00, mit- important attribute, H.K. $72.00 next most
Altrele He must have moral backbone, course don't smell they tub re-
gularly. By God, the longer Ants and worry. 0:30 Theissen pati Inat night. And 200 crossed ters fairly satisfactory. and this stems from high char-ve the more I appreciate George took us into Myitkyina.
About the river from the east. Mc-on 28th, tumorrow to get lined. acter; and he must be physically Washington and the boys of the twelve correspondents, Heavy Cammon says "altuation is criti-up. courageous, ur successfully con-Revolution. Raining ugain. We clouds. We let down and got in cal." Not a thing I can do.
MAY 25-Disturbing news from 10:00. 80th [Regis¡ has rained heavily all, morning. ceal the fact that he is not. must know the tools of his trade, have this constant threat of the O.K., about
ment] coming in, 150th had not we can't get troops in, also the Mital. McCammon gloomy. De- He must monsoon hanging over us.
Rain, in at started attack. First Battalion field is in bad shape at Mitch. ckied to go down. tactics and logistics.
[Marauders) ha MAY B-Shoved off at 11:30 of) Galahad
runway very wet. ha Radioed McCammon to take out Mitch, O.K.. be impartial. He must be calm
He must rewardi under stress England, and Mr. T. Gwynne promptly and punish justly Picked up Sun [Li-Jen) at 38th gone to the Zigon ferry. No Jap Charpati i information was true. Get the dope on the attack. All local. Later message said Japaneso night Aring all along the line, to 113th Regiment). - Planes bombing the town.
both in front and behind of 3rd very little sleep. Rain. must be accessible, human, humte Division command post and reaction, Japs not yet
patient, forhearing.
11001 and He Hot, 1:30 to 3:30 like up to 114th Shoved off at
General came Battalion of Galahad. bla,
27-Rain again, should listen to advice, make his Command Post near Nawngmi back around the Mogaung cor- nir
down of discouragement own decision, and
carry it out Kawng. Hill, 2,000 [feet high), ner. Got an L-1 and flew back there, and of course correspond-couraging. No air support. Worry with energy.
Damned near killed me. All out to Shaduzup.
We've got to wony-worry. Oft at 9:30 (back ing worry here. Unless a commander is human of shape. No wind, no legs.
sweat it out, but it's no fun, Q2: 10 Shaduzup). he cannot understand the reac- Swore off smoking then and MAY 19-Flock of visitors con- Get Pick's engineers [as reinforce-
If he of his men.
MAY 20-CLEAR! Thank God, Merrill in-he has had ment? Yes. At least alert them. tions
there. Felt like an old man when tinues.
Peterson
engineers in yesterday human, the pressure on him in- I staggered in. Li fregimental another [heart] attack.
and usc replacements for got the
RS So much has been happen-tensifies tremendously. The callous commander] there. Went over gave him morphine nad put him Galahad.. Meanwhile push 42nd and the air will start on Galalind One more ing in Europe that we have man has no mental struggle over the dope and there was the usual to bed. Progress terribly slow [Regiment) In, and follow with replacements today.
Over-at Mitch. I am worried about 41st Regiment] if necessary.
day and we are sót-Christ again, had little time to look to Jeopardizing the lives of 10,000 bustle and stir by Sun.
night at 114th Regiment). Sun the Jamoves this a.m. and over- redetion, 150th (Regt- men; the human commander can-
the golam rain will only let will God give me on more day of clear weather? Took a swim events nearer Hong Kong on
It is not avold this struggle.
went back-too much for him.
us use the fuld for a few days, with Jee, in the Shadu. Cloud- wearing, and the international plane. Yet
A Jap we can't land planes. constant and
lng up. study of recent
necessary, for the men can sense
MAY 9-Li went up to bnt-
land troops. moved. Counterallock last night
This is one of those terrible
MAY 30-CLEAR! Another Korea .may give some clue to the commoncler's difficulty.. There tailon command port. I let him Broup up by North fteld has sto
worry days, when you wish you break. God is good (sometimes). go to give him jaj chance to push at Zigon ferry. are many ways in which he can show his interest in them and the boys after I had aruted at they respond, once they belleve length on his slowness and need
MAY 20-Last night Sun - were dead. 10:00 p.m. still rain-Today we move 42nd [Regiment Into Myitkyina by air] and begin it is real. Then you get mutual for haste. Told him to get going. Jen] in with plan to take Ka-ng
[UNDATED] I'm worrier. O.K. by me.
on Allers (Galahal) from Ram- We left at 1:00 down maing. confidence, the basis of real dis- Period.
then along and 1,500 feet to river, then up 1,000 him
agreed. am always imagining dangers, clpline.
Generals get sharply criticised. feet to commanil post. The god-1 Anything to get the 38th (Div-and experiencing them mentally. garh Decided to take Boatner to
If we get to Kn-Many never occur, but those that, Mitch, (in) at 5:15.
do I'm mentally prepared for, se good: (only) 12 men left in 2nd They are the birds who shelter dam shoes were killing my feet. sinn] moving." themselves in dugouts and send Skin af toes. No others with maing, we tell the Limeya to
maybe it phys. They say the Battalion of Galahad. Galahad is the soldiers out to get killed.me. Pretty dumb. Fell up the to hell.
themselves cover
with hill and into command post ex- Merrill passen by medicos. I let coward dies a thousand deaths, just shot. They
Again told them what him go back-they (the Maraus the valiant dies but onee.
possibly the vallant dles a thou- molas, won at this expense
I wanteri. Japs fired artillery ders are to finish the jobs [atsaukt deaths 100, if he is cursed row, put Bontner in command, he the lives of their inen, who are
in regardless, to compen all night long, all over the lot.
Myitkyina). thrown
The with imagination. sate for faulty or poorly thought-
[Regi- who One Hundred Aftleth
dies but once must be an JUNE 2-LETTER TO MRS. aroundl At the Moscow conference out plans.
has command post unimaginative clod, or else he has STILWELL The pressure has There are really not many morning waiting for news of at- ment
1 can't understand. of 1945, three points were
Third Myitkyina] ralirond station. Japs something The averack on Batang Kawng. decided 09 the basis for [generals) like that.
Mylikyina business, etc. Some of future settlement. The coun-te general envies the buck pri- company going to Samiun around sucked into baznur secile Enough will power to dismlas from oven on me for a month: worry trouble and disaster that may our troubles have ironed out, the try should be reunited in one vale when things go wrong, the left flank, First company straight sistance now localised and we are his mind all the possibilities of ever the weather, worry over the
can blaine the general, . (They did and lost a platoon reasonably sure of the place. Japs troubl private
That would take balance break in the weather I had been and six casualties apparently all in confusion and economic unit; a provisional general can blame only himself. commander,
about trying to pull out, Chinese cast that I know I could never attain, praying for came at just the right I have to drive myself through time (Great is God-Allah Il Korean government should The private carries the woes of from fre from flank.)
the mental stress of anticipation. Allah-Wo mi t'e fu) and now be set up; there should be one man; the general carries the 1:30 1.1 regimental commander]nities heavy.
wees of all. He is conscious al- went to SCL Peng battalion
Within a week, the success of Q: Am I by nature a coward: we have a fighting chance. Cer- by the four trusteeship
ways of the responsibility on his commander] horrified
And it so, can it not be brilliant a
to a coup
the fighting chanco. The stun- Powers, but for no longer shoulders, of the relatives of the should go too. Too much loss of Myitkyina had transformed itself
that it is harder to be a coward ? fain of our alles don't care for than five years.
men entrusted
of face. Told them in fight or squalid, heartbreaking campaign, and not quit..than u hero? 10 him, and
flon in Chinn looks pretty bad. He must net so would go and stand the trail their feelings.
To be able to live with the believe the G'mo is going to Every Korean party except that he can face those fathers
This makes them The 150th Chinese Regiment,
family, with a free mind I have pay dearly for being stupid and the Communists
es up front. protested
and mothers without shame or move and is the only thing that which was the first flown in to
to risk never living with them, stubborn. The juckass had salva- against the third point. They
How
this thought enn he do this? does. Down the hill to regimental consolidate, had but lately arriv
would tion offered him free, and and spent
the ed from China and was unblood. Probably had an ancient civilisation. By constant care, by meticulous command post
In their first action, never occur to a guy of strong wouldn't take it. Now it's by right there, Chinese and preparation,
troops ed in war.
late and he's screaming. This 13 They had, they claimed, ruled thought
on high staggering uphill as We catne several of its battalions mistook character. by insistence worry,
Imagination again. I often just what I told them a year ago themselves for 40 centuries, standards in everything, by re-down. All cheerful, they deserve each other for Japanese and suc-
cceded in inflicting disastrous dream of going down into holes but they knew botter. The rains and they had no need of, orward and punishment, by Im-better company officers.
casualities on themselves before to pull the kids out, or looking have held off miraculously, but use for, "Four-Power trustee-parilality, by an example of calm
MAY 12-Yoke jumped off recognition was achieved. Pante for them frantically underwater we are about id run into them and confidence. It all adds up
at I think of alluations..quite
need ship."
spread. Before the troops to character.
yesterday-maybe.
he pulled to lossly..that
my guts Myitkyina could That was enough for the
Q:+-K a man has enough char-
JUNE 3-Evening, word from Soviets; they immediately
expected to gether the Japanese had had water. Is it the same thing that acter to be
good com- said that any party rejecting mander, does he ever doubt him give us the 48-hour signal to- tinte to bring in all their outpost mukes me worry about covering Boatner. Got bumped yesterday
about flanks,
checking on hard-42nd (Regiment) had 240 He should not. In my night. I told Merrill to roll un garrisons from the field, to rush the
[Regiment) the Moscow proposals was self?
des- not "democratic," and should case, I doubt myself. Therefore, in and swing on 'em. [The Mar- supplies and reinforcements from location of units, delivery of or [casualties); 150th
Attack stop- ders, execution of movements, had 80 casualties.
etc.. etc.? ped. not be allowed to vote for I am in all probability not a good auders' column was to preserve the South and dig in for
Wouldn't a
mind dismiss
sea
and
What has been happening in Korea, with its 24 million inhabitants, jutting into the between China Japan? Like Germany, it is divided into a Soviet zone and free zone, though, in the case of Korea, the free zone is occupied solely by Ameri- can troops.
remorse.
the new Korean government. commander. FORMULA
Working on these lines, Back-
know
hnuxtec.
MAY
10-Lay
MAY 14-Hunter
that
alt
a few days before Japan's son" in this country is a joke, 111 We have had rain At 10:30 message "in the ring"
from
their
occur,
tum
arrival of supplies,
But
valiant
Just as I left it only not so
Made general plan for tomor-
took hold at once.
now.
10
too
All he wants
JUNE 6-OR at 11:00, Kunming
radio silence all the way through perate resistance. the jungle till they judged them- The Japanese force, variously Wo
JUNE 4-Kuo, [of] 38th [Divi- Character
80% selves within forty-eight hours' estimated at from five to seven the needless worry and concent- ed by the normal-police-ter- -Power-of-decision 10% march of Myitkyina Itself. Then thousand men, decided to make rate on the important things? Orsion], in to announce capture of Technical knowledge 5% they were to radio in by prear a suicide stand of it, and each must. I pay for one by suffering Tumboughka. That's grand, And Liao has told Fu to get into ror, the Communist single
5% runged code, so that the air force individual pocket had to be dug the other as well? Everything else
Strangely
do not Kamaing tomorrow. enough I list
in their of candidates
could alert its units for the troop out in intensive fighting. Two
own lot. It Chiang Kai-shek says: “Come MAY 1, LETTER TO MRS. carrier movement to the airstrip full months dragged by while worry about my ¡zone got 99.2 per cent of the
votes. That would not have STILWELL- This is the month when it should have been seized.] their stronghold was being reduc- never occurs to me that iny plane up for Christ's sake," so shoved
48 Hour Notice.
ed. Two American commanders will crash or that the next bombs off at 4:00. Kunming at 7:00.
The pos- been bad for a pre-war Nazi when the heavens open and the
were rellened. The Marauders. has my name on it.
JUNE 5-Up at 5:15, off at 6:30, the foods descend and the Aelds be- Naturally, plebiscite.
previcus sibility occurs to me, but it does dis- come lakes and the roads
MAY 15-(2:00 p.m.) 24 HOUR erhausted from
Date with four months of fighting, were not weigh on my mind at all. I Chungking at 9:00. Americans would not accept
appear and there is hell to pay NOTICE!!
with
As disease. The wonder what that indicates. Chiang at 8:30. expected, Old here. All set for moves to decimated any such racket in the area generally. I hope the Japs are
battle In connection with the above, chiseling gasoline for the Four Hunter rains poured down, the If the Mitch. Took a walk.
ન they control. So the country as tired of it as we are.
many things have happened close teenth Air Force. [at Myitkyina] set by night of area became a quagmire, it to05 remains split, in spite of re-little bastards Insist on ehting (th. Hiding out w1 17th or 18th. impossible to withdraws from the to me in time or space, without is the world and nothing in re-
during the rains,
struggle through the jungle making any Impression of danger turn. peated proposals and efforts what I'll do, but there are indi-
a without disaster.
Chiang much surprised over By God to find some agreement.
on 'me. The plane ahead of miny been cations that they have
MAY 17-Clear.
the plane behind North Burma success, Got and there, so break. the chewed up here
commanding officer!
Although this Most interesting is
was a period has crashed, won't be sa am- of 149th Regiment] up and told question of the 200,000 troops maybe they
the Chinese hod captured been bombed just before my ar- པཱ་ཁ the Soviets poured into Korea bltious this time. The "dry sea-him about the job, except des- not unmarked with success for has been shot down, a place has
tination [Myitkyina).
Kamaing and gone on to Morival r just after my departure, at 2:00, saw Chennault and his gaung beyond-it was a period Someone else, doing just what I staff and told them what would surrender.
of bitterness and worry for Stil was doing, has been a casualty. be done. Off again at 3:00-Ting- For now they December, 12 days in January, 18 came in. That meant "at
And still no opprehension is creat-kawk [Shaduzup] at 7:15 Indian. 10 in
well. feld.
I know how time, hôt and humid. · Joo. up and are pressing their insistance in February, 10 in March,
Old flew over [Myitkyina] at
nd in my mind. that all foreign forces, Rus- April, and now it's really going
Not till the end of July was the Win would explain it, but if so, played accordion till midnight. ral. From now till fall we'll 12:00 and saw nothing. Hunter sian and American, should
well was more than willing to MAY 23-Cleared up at 11:00. leave the country. Sure of be in the Navy. Did I tell you getting in place, probably. We'll decision sure; and by then Stil-1 why isn't everyone taken care of?!
this one? I was crossing a river just have to sweat it out. their own grip on the North- in a pontoon and the coloured Merrill in at 2:50. Had been leave the jungle and fly to Cey- Asla Command ern. sector. they can afford soldier running the boat looked over field which was clear (of Lord Louis Mountbatten of
head Japs). Ho saw trench moriar the South East to make the gesture. They me over and shook his
sadly. Sald he: "It sure is fre well to North East. About
deputy of the command was or have crented a local "People's tough to make an old man like we got "Merchant
dered" to SEAC headquarters at this
transports can Army" to take the place of you come up and work in
Kandy in Ceylon to watch affairs the Russian soldiers and have country!" I occasionally overhear WHOOPS! Enormous, relief to from the Commander's chair. set up a Communist-dominat- similar remarks by the Chinese get Merrill's report. ed "Democratic People's. Re- soldiers. They think I am about ordered machinery and reinforce- public" on the standard satel-ninety year okl and comment on ments started.
their own senior officers. lite pattern.
The offer was B clever MAY 2-Another cloudy day. We over. move. If rejected, the Ameri-sut und gloomed. The 22nd Divi-planes both ways.
sion has had 57 company oficers cans could be denounced as
killed. Can't push the 22nd Divi militarists and imperialists.alon under the circumstances and
anyway.
If accepted, events would be can't help them. It's holl. Joe up
the
ton.
of Venic was called to London. Stilwell as
*
landi.
At once
MAY 21-Six p.m. Cannon In About 3:30 two from Mitch. BAD NEWS. Panic! transports landed. At 4:00 we in 150th [Regiment]; they "ran saw transports and gliders going away and had to be taken out. at Milch. A bad Thereafter, a stream of What goes on
Told them to day mentally. Good deal of
still better from the Soviet for supper and checkers. Christ DO YOUR
point of view, as her soldiers but I feel helpless.
KNOW
would drop back just a few MAY 4-Louis's Intest is pro- hundred miles to their own posal to withdraw. [our] force so frontiers. The Americans as to save planes, presumably to YOUR would withdraw a few thou-use in Implial. Back at 3:00.. Liao known sand miles-to the other side now making all the
excuses for not moving. He and
of the ocean and the way be sun have been hobnobbing for clear for Communist infiltra- three days. He's going to lle down tlon, terrorism, and all the and dig in.
other tricks of the trade, MAY 6-Lino in at 1:30. Long which would almost certain-talk. He is affected by losses,
HONG KONG?
Dally to the ly extend their control from particularly company officerschles Mall”. It the north to cover the whole
MAY 0-LETTER TO MRS. future will ap a photo- country. It is the course
pear ara they would like to follow: STILWELL Your letters
grand and help me to remember graph similar to and will follow, in Germany that everything is not double- that above, odd unless they are faced with crossing, obstruction, and stupi shots of familiar Hong Kong firmness, and determination, dity. Probably we are getting a
buildings bit Jumpys the boys have boer
and
not only in Berlin, but over plugging for four, and a half a recognise where this plo ture was taken? The answer fo on the conference tables
at
months and it hasn't been easy.
rent some "wart dogs" They
Paris in London and inve, fit, heard we have been
Washington.
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