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Japan's other enemies were Russia and China. Itagaki as War Minister, excusing his protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never...
...cinema screens. A cinema audience at Blood and Sand was startled when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...
First reports indicated that General Ma, whose clan holds the power of potentates among China's 15,000,000 Moslems, had submitted to banishment by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Actually the "banishment" was a tribute to the Gissimo's policy of giving Moslem leaders authority with responsibility. For it was General Ma who in 1937-39 dismounted his cavalry and put them to building the Kansu-Sinkiang highway over which Russian supplies traveled to the Chinese army. Now, with Russia embattled and the Burma Road closed, General Ma was again being asked to do the impossible. Nearly cornered, China...
...smuggled goods and braced themselves for a final effort to drive the Chinese from coastal Fukien Province. With Fukien would go the best remaining bases in China for air attack on Japan. The Japanese also stabbed at interior Hunan with a double aim: to take an area valuable to Chiang Kai-shek's armies, to extend Jap control of eastern China's railways...
...their last night as a group, the pilots and their honorary commander, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, played musical chairs at the home of China's aged President Lin San. Then they tramped through rain and mud to motorcars, returned to their barracks and slept through the midnight hour when the A.V.G. passed into the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said rangy, blond Major Tex Hill: "People don't seem to understand you got feelings. When you work and fight together for a long time you hate to split up. It's like something going out of your life...