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...astute move cut two ways. The appointment of U.S.-educated T. V. Soong, who more than any other Chinese has in the past showed a grasp of Western methods, men and purposes, could scarcely fail to please the U.S. and simplify the task of Chiang's U.S. advisers, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Chief of the joint U.S.-Chinese General Staff...
...armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble...
Wedemeyer and his staff have received unprecedented cooperation from the Generalissimo. From the beginning, Chiang appreciated Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since...
...General Chu Teh and other party leaders bravely flexed their political muscles and claimed that they commanded a regular army of 910,000 men (last fall it was 570,000), 2,200,000 partisans, 1,200,000 party members and territories inhabited by 95,000,000 Chinese. They called Chiang's proposed constitutional convention a "mockery of democracy," charged that it would be Kuomintang-packed, accused Chungking's "ruling clique" of preparing to launch a civil...
...relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...