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...China had a somber, almost majestic sameness. Again the dispatches told of Jap advances, Chinese retreat, threatened disaster (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). Again Chinese spokesmen pleaded for aid. Again the U.S. Government replied with a tribute. Vice President Wallace, leaving Chungking, left behind a message from President Roosevelt to Chiang Kaishek: "The stand which your people have made against the forces of aggression has set an example for all the friends of China...
Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
Year VII. In the person of Chiang Kaishek, China sat at Cairo as one of the world's big powers-a tribute to her resistance, a token of her coming place. Her armies and her people suffered, hoped, retreated, resisted, hung...
Symbol of a Nation. More than ever, the symbol of China's will on the eighth Double Seventh was the shaven-headed, tenacious Generalissimo. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitterest political enemies, the veteran Communist chiefs Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, acknowledged his undisputed leadership in resistance. In the 17 years since he set out to centralize and nationalize China, Chiang Kai-shek had concentrated tremendous power in his own hands. But he could never have held that power if he had not used it for China, and against Japan. In him a leader's will...
...Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...