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...with "Gulliver" painted on its weathered nose in Chinese,* English and Russian), through nearly a score of countries and territories flaming with war, separated Wendell Willkie from his last meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. As the President has yet to do, Willkie had met and talked with Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kaishek. He had spent 161½ hours in the air, smelled the smells of Cairo and looked down from his airplane windows at uncountable square miles of Siberian vastness. He had seen American soldiers in many countries, listened to the beefs and urgings of many men. Into his ears...
...Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
Then Willkie got back to his topic: "The one contribution that I want to make is to howl and howl that all nations must be free to seek their own just aspirations. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and I are going to howl for the right kind of world when this war is over...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a check for $10,000 to Jap-tortured James Benjamin Powell, editor (until Pearl Harbor) of the China Weekly Review. His feet mutilated as a result of his mistreatment, the once-husky editor has been abed since he reached the U.S. in August. Into a fund originally intended simply to pay Powell's hospital expenses have already gone: $7,000 from the National Press Club; $3,000 from Chinese newsmen in China; $1,700 from the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan; more besides...
...Chiang Kai-Shek can hardly be overawed at the all-out generosity of his allies who have thus far aided the Chinese war effort with a total of but twenty fighter planes. The Generalissimo can hardly feel that the sacrifice of ten millions of people and the devastation of millions of square miles of conquered land can be made worth the pain and loss by the mere promise that China will some day be unified and free...