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...make public statements. Last week, when she broke her silence, she voiced again the democratic conscience of China; once more she raised the dormant but still-vibrant national hopes of her late great husband, whose liberal program has been all but lost in the pressures of war under Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...enclosure of a Casablanca hotel surrounded by barbed wire and bristling guards, they conferred, discussed, mulled over their problems. They were in close touch with Russia's Joseph Stalin, who was too busy with war on his own soil to join them, with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They brought together, for the first time, the two leading figures in the tangled French political situation: Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa...
...Joseph Stalin was invited (although he did not attend), and both he and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were kept advised of the proceedings...
Across the central Asiatic wastes in China's far Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...absence of Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek from the ten-day Casablanca conference should not be construed in any way as meaning that they were excluded from the proceedings," Wild explained, since it has been stated definitely that they were kept in constant touch as negotiations proceeded...