To honor General Joseph Stilwell's part in the Burma campaign, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who had forced "Vinegar Joe's" recall, last week named the newly opened Ledo-Burma highway Stilwell Road. The General was not present to see his dream of a new route from India to China come true. TIME Correspondent Theodore M. White, who was, cabled:
All other convoys will be different. Ours was the first. The sun was burning through the morning fog at Myitkyina [pronounced Myit-chi-nah] when we set out, 100-odd vehicles in line. The American drivers, white and colored alike, the...