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...addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek all the way across the world in Chungking...
...this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...
...they lost after winning it 17 years ago. Then they will have a sufficient barrier between Russia and Japanese Asia. They will have removed, at Vladivostok, an ever-present threat of Russian or U.S. air attack on Tokyo itself. Russian aid to China will be completely shut off, and Chiang Kai-shek's resistance may finally be smothered...
Opportunity knocks, and the sound is pleasant to Itagaki's ear. But he cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General...
...with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow snake of the Yangtze drawing closer. Over to the right high up on a mountain, appeared the black spot of Kuling, formerly a summer resort of foreigners. Here it was that on July 19, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek made his historic speech declaring China would fight. Beyond on the northern bank rose the Tapieh Mountains, the great Chinese guerrilla base that stretches almost to Hankow...