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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by ironic_ali on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:18PM (#18097785)
Have you a source for Japan cutting off it's supply of food, I'd not read about that before.
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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by tomohawk on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:56PM (#18097928)
Wikipedia talks about it a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Japan occupied Burma, cutting off supplies.

Japan was also sinking British shipping - the whole empire was in extremis. It seems likely that this whole sad episode would have turned out quite differently without the war going on.

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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by scythe on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:57PM (#18097932)
See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Pre-famin...

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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by dredmorbius on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:47PM (#18098278)
More here as well:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-bengal-famine-of-1943-195073

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