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...dusk fell, the army fell out along the road. We slept. Next day about noon we arrived at divisional headquarters, four miles behind the lines. We had been assigned to the famed 151st Division, whose chief of staff 25 years ago was Chiang Kaishek. The 151st, like all Chinese divisions, was understrength. The entire division had two pieces of artillery-two antique French 75's-several mortars, some machine guns and rifles. It also had guts. What it had to do was to move up the hills in the daylight, ignoring Jap artillery, and dig live Japs...
...possible for an American general or admiral to determine in what numbers, and where, our Allies shall fight. This has to be ironed out by the responsible Allied Governments-ironed out with Churchill, De Gaulle, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek. It involves commitments only Government heads can make. It involves the national aspirations which are the basis of practical military strategy...
...Madame Chiang Kaishek, who spent three months in a U.S. hospital on her last visit (1942-43) to the Western Hemisphere, arrived by plane in Brazil. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and insomnia, planned a three-month rest cure. In China, she had been under the care of U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Frank Harrington, said he had warned her that "I'd never be cured if I stayed in Chungking...
There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
Among the gentlemen present were Chiang Kai-shek's Finance Minister Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, Canada's Ilsley, Mexico's Suarez, Netherlands' Beyen, Russia's Stepanov, Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the British and the Americans in the Battle of the Blueprints has taken place under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second...