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...that house is the Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo's nephew. Several of them speak as well as fight Japanese. Most of the members have known the Japanese intimately in battle-for five years past...
...against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...Such is Chiang Kai-shek's customary impetus. He united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...
...great Chiang, say his farmer-soldiers, sits like a mountain, moves like a dragon, and walks with the sure step of a tiger. Sometimes some of the soldiers get a chance to see Chiang, and when they do, they still believe this description of him. Soldiers who have fought under him say that when they knew they were to talk with him, they would write down what they planned to say, memorize it, and then be unable to speak when they looked at that calm, mysterious face with the tender eyes and jaw of iron...
JAPAN: A WORLD PROBLEM-H. J. Timperley-John Day ($1.75). Chiang Kai-shek's Australian adviser traces the evidences of "paranoia nipponica" from early times to the China Incident...