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...General Stilwell said he intended to go back to China and talk things over with Gissimo Chiang soon...
...Chiang the soldier says very little to his men. He listens to their reports, their suggestions or their fears. Then, with a single grunted word, hao (good) or pu (no), he makes his decision. He is a stern disciplinarian, and keeps his army taut. When he visits the fronts, he blurts words of praise or of withering criticism on the spot, in public hearing...
...except for the handful of A.V.G.s with obsolescent planes, no U.S. fighters or bombers are operating from China. Like Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek has repeatedly said, in effect: "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." But, unlike Churchill, Chiang has still to get the tools in any quantity that counts...
...still fighting the Jap in Burma, or had filtered back into China, or had disintegrated. Unspoken in India (and unanswered in the U.S. early this week) was the question: Why did Uncle Joe Stilwell leave the troops he commanded? Was it on orders from Washington? Was it at Gissimo Chiang's request?* Was it on his own authority, because the job of commanding Chinese troops who had commanders of their own was too embarrassing...
...Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult...