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...That John Service, as an adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, had recommended that the U.S. let Chiang's Government fall. That report, said Hurley, "was circulated among the Communists with whom I was negotiating" (for an agreement with Chiang...
...thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...
...Harbin. There was other good news from Manchuria for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. The Nationalist Army organ Ho Ping Pao reported that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...
Eleanor Roosevelt, exercising her conversational right as a private citizen, reminisced about a former house guest. Said she of Mme Chiang Kai-shek: "She is two different people. She could talk very convincingly about democracy and its aims and ideals and be perfectly charming, but she hasn't any idea how to live it." A couple of days later, she explained in her column that she had not meant to criticize Mme Chiang, but just to illustrate the state of democracy in China...
...Editor Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post came an angry cable from Manila. His foreign correspondent and associate editor, slight, gaunt-faced, 40-year-old Edgar Snow, had just learned that Chiang's Government had barred him from covering U.S. Marines' operations in China...