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Senate reaction was prompt and vociferous. Georgia's Senator Walter George warned that such searing condemnation was fine fuel for Communist propagandists. Others thought the report might be enough to unseat the whole Chiang regime...
...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
Whenever Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false...
...last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what the Generalissimo had been meditating on: his China was breaking...
...Lack of Danger. Marshall made it clear that the President's plan was as far as the Administration would now go. He did not minimize the danger of a Communist victory. Under sharp questioning by Minnesota's Walter H. Judd, he agreed that if the Chiang government fell, the Communists would immediately seize all of China north of the Yangtze, would hold the key to all the rest. He agreed that such a turn would make the U.S. position in Korea untenable, would force "a very serious situation" on General Douglas MacArthur* in Japan...