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...Chungking, Gissimo Chiang Kai-shek is as famous for his timing as a Swiss watch. But last week, at the moment when he made this statement, the news seemed to shout that he had his schedule of optimism all mixed...
...within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...head, went so far as to say that China was worse off than when the U.S. joined her against Japan. U.P. quoted him as saying that "during two months he has heard no discussion of grand strategy, and if there is any, he cannot find it out." Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...Chinese soldiers knew that it would not stop until the Jap was thrown back or until he had the whole eastern railroad system in his hands. With it would go more than the supply system for eastern Free China. With it would go many of the airdromes prepared by Chiang Kai-shek and his patient coolies for the blow at Japan that is yet to come...
...spur line into the parched maw of Free China would solve the problem of getting help to Chiang Kai-shek-if he was still there when the spur was built...