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...Chiang Kai-shek read it in Chungking and approved it. Winston Churchill worked on it and signed it in Potsdam while he was still Prime Minister; Clement Attlee, prudently included in the early Potsdam meetings, approved it before he had any authority to sign it. Joseph Stalin, nominally neutral in the Pacific war, did not sign the declaration, but he undoubtedly gave it a look...
Over luncheon bowls in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek chatted with Yank's Sergeant Walter E. Peters, and answered an important question...
...Chiang's health has greatly improved. She originally left China on the advice of her American physician, who told her she would never recover in Chungking's humid climate. At that time there were also rumors of a rift with the Gissimo, but they were effectively spiked. When cool weather sets in again, she intends to go back and resume her place as China's first lady...
...Said Chiang: "Where it takes $10 for one American soldier, only $1 is necessary for ours. We must remember that the Chinese soldier is fighting in his own homeland. He knows the topography better than anyone else. He is more suitable to the climate and conditions of fighting. To send American troops where we can employ Chinese troops is not very logical. It would be a big strain on the line of communications...
...could he assent to naval or air bases for Russia in Manchuria. As to China's democratization, Chungking had long striven for it and for an understanding with Yenan. The Russians felt that a durable accord between Moscow and Chungking must be preceded by peace between Generalissimo Chiang's Government and the Chinese Communists. T.V., it was decided, would report back to Chungking, return to Moscow next month...