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...altogether forgotten was the plight of the Indian people, nor the necessity of keeping them on the side of the United Nations in Asia. This week 57 U.S. educators, writers, scholars and civic leaders petitioned President Roosevelt and China's Chiang Kai-shek to intervene. Their contention: "The time for mediation in India...
China is Belden's special beat-but last April when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his Armies slogging down the Burma Road to help Britain keep China's back door open, Belden went along into Burma. When he reached Maymyo he found two other members of the TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung...
...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
...been stationed in Washington. Between them, they might have seemed to be diplomatically irresistible. If China was not getting its due, the fault might lie with the U.S. rather than with the Chinese Embassy. Dr. Hu's friends hoped that one persistent Washington rumor was true: that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big job for Dr. Hu in China...
...beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile fields of Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Jap said he was preparing for other work. Probably he was. But as he thinned out his garrisons, the foundations of his conquest were magically washed away, and Chiang's soldiers found it suddenly easy to speed him on his retreat...