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...been a proud, fierce people. They have fought Chinese and Japanese with equal stubbornness. Just as stubbornly they have fought among themselves. Outer Mongolia fell under Soviet influence; then Inner Mongolia, stretching north from China's Great Wall to the Gobi, became the Japanese puppet state of Meng-Chiang...
...thousands of laborers two years to build the easier 330-mile stretch to Sichang. But necessity and good pay spurred these laborers; their bosses were the same Chinese geniuses who had created the Burma Road. Perhaps a hopeful Chinese spokesman had that fact in mind when he announced that Chiang Kai-shek in New Delhi had, among other feats (see p. 24), arranged a satisfactory war route from India to China...
...Well-Wishers. Joseph Stalin and his Red Army received congratulations from ranking Allied powers of the world. Douglas MacArthur sent his compliments from beleaguered Bataan: "The hopes of civilization rest on the worthy banners of the courageous Russian Army." From China's Chiang Kai-shek came a fine blend of commendation and suggestion: "I strongly believe the spiritual affinity between our two armies is bound to become practical collaboration in action...
With the authority of one of the Allies' two greatest fighting leaders, in a fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...
...desire. He met Mohandas Gandhi shortly after noon in the marbled and gilded Calcutta mansion of Gandhi's rich cotton-milling backer, Ghanshyamdas Birla. Throughout the conversations, Gandhi spun yarn on a charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk and fruit. Gandhi gave the yarn he had spun to the Gissimo, the charkha...