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...letting reports of the speech through Chungking's rigid censorship, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government showed: 1) that it was not insensitive to the opinion of its allies; 2) that, all its faults notwithstanding, it was not nearly so bad as some of the critics seemed to think...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
...first stop was at West Point (pop. 2,510), where a high-school band and a thousand curious townsmen clustered on the main street. Wendell Willkie, hero to millions in 1940, world-flying confidant of Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, climbed up on a truck. Slouched against the cab, hands in pockets, he urged his listeners to unite behind the next President "whoever...
...produced four specific protests to the British Foreign Office, since last Oct. 1, concerning premature London reports of : 1) Secretary Hull's impending arrival in Moscow; 2) the Italian declaration of war against Germany; 3) signing of the third Lend-Lease agreement with Russia; 4) the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang conference at Cairo. A fifth had already been mentioned in the Times dispatch from London: a report that a U.S. plan for postwar Germany had been submitted to the European Advisory Commission...
...told that if he would march his people into the war without asking embarrassing questions he could sit afterwards at the peace table 'with Ireland's traditional friends.' I presume that referred to Haile Selassie and Chiang Kaishek...