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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] AP-Smugglers claim Burma Road

  The "Burma Surgeon" and "Return of the Burma Surgeon" are interesting books 
about that era.  I found both original copies.  The US archives has extensive 
black-and-white film footage about Burma as well.

In a message dated 9/23/99 4:23:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< 
 If anyone of you find this period of history interesting, as I do, you
 wish to read, if not already having done so, a highly captivating and
 very well documented book by the former State Department China expert,
 John Paton DAvies, Jr 'Dragon by the Tail'; he was purged by the Dulles
 CIA post war Cold war pro Chiang KMT bunch of drug dealing fools, and
 you will find especially illuminating the conversations with Mao and
 Chou En-lai, as well as Chennault and Stilwell; a bit like Kennan's two
 volume history about how the US blew it in Soviet Russia during the
 Lenin days, here, how the US blew it in China and gave us McCarthy and
 Dulles and all the rest right through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and today
 Burma. Good reading. ds 
 
 TIN KYI wrote:
 > 
 > Smugglers claim Burma Road
 > Posted on 9/22/99, 09:21 AM CST. Email this story to a friend.
 > Source: .
 > Posted by: ShweInc NEWs
 > 
 > WWII route to China now lifeline to corrupt Myanmar's government
 > 
 > By Patrick McDowell / Associated Press
 > 
 > LASHIO, Myanmar -- In the early years of World War II, the dusty outpost of
 > Lashio was a key junction on the Burma Road, the intravenous drip that fed
 > Allied supplies to the beleaguered government of China.
 > 
 > The mountainous route in northeastern Myanmar retains a whiff of danger and
 > mystery, but these days it's because the old road is one of the world's
 > biggest smuggling routes.
 >  >>