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...identify peace in China with the only stability that this nation had ever known. A succession of peacemakers, led by the Indian-fighter Hurley, allowed the de jure status of the Kuomintang government to whitewash the true structure of a monolithic, one-party government. For those in Chungking, the Chiang regime meant the law and the established order plus the only chance of carrying the Asiatic war to the interior lines of the enemy...
...White would tell us differently. If the Chinese people were to rally behind this Japanese war, he claims, they should have been allowed to win a peace that held promise. But Chiang's war meant conscription into an army that was corrupted from its headquarters to its provincial encampments, and this war meant payment of taxes to landlords who would grow fat as they had in Chinese conflicts since the ancient dynasties. Most of all, if the Chinese people were to rally to this fight, they had to be led by a program of land reform as well...
...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...
Both among diplomats here and at Nanking it was viewed as a likely signal for the start of the full scale civil war long brewing between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government and the Communists in North China...
...story involves an ex-Harvard professor named Lewis Teigne who disappears mysteriously from his house near Shanghai. Perhaps he has gone over to the Japanese invaders. Perhaps he is trying to convince quarreling China that Chiang Kai-shek is indeed "the Polar Star that stays in its place," a national symbol...