A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 21, 1944

To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

There are a lot more American troops (mostly Air Corps men) in the China-Burma-India theater of war these days than most people realize. So now a special edition of TIME is being printed on the other side of the world for these servicemen who are farthest away from the U.S. and most completely cut off from other sources of news from home.

Every week a 25-lb. package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline...

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