Word: chiangs
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...ashen-yellow hand over his knobby, shaved head. He spoke as always, snapping out the long vowels and hissing sibilants of his native tongue with the impatience of rifle fire. It was fitting that he should speak now, at the weekly Sun Yat-sen memorial service. For Chiang Kaishek, like Sun Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously defeated in Asia...
Only a one-line announcement in Chungking newspapers revealed that Chiang and the Missimo had been in the northwest provinces (Sinkiang, Kansu, Ningsia, Shensi, Chinghai) for several weeks. Whom they talked with and where they went was a wartime secret. Only after Chiang had spoken to his top officials for a full hour did some of the things that he and Mme. Chiang learned become known...
Still the last stop on the milk route of United Nations supplies, China has been able to dominate her own skies this summer with the aid of a handful of U.S. planes and pilots. As the Japanese have spread their land forces all over Asia, Chiang's armies have swept back with the tide. Last week they had thrown the Japs back in Chekiang province, were closing in on the last "bomb Tokyo" airfield in the province...
...Russia in 1938, now are working on another in Tibet (TIME, July 27) which may shorten the new routes for supplies. Both men, dominating huge areas where the Moslems (onequarter of the population in the Northwest) have escaped the remarkable assimilative powers of the Chinese, are friendly with the Chiang government. With both, the Gissimo and his pretty wife presumably discussed national affairs...
Farther west, in Sinkiang, the Chiangs may have also discussed politics as well as transportation with the Russians who have dominated Sinkiang in the ten-year power play for influence (and buffer territories) between the Japanese, the Russians, the Moslems, the Chinese Communists and Chiang...