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Particular commendation to all of the men you mention and more specifically to a man from a country never before so united under one great leader-Chiang Kaishek...
Fury. The Chinese and the Dutch were not too happy anyhow. They had been slighted in the formation of the Allied Supreme Far Eastern Command. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had not been taken into the joint counsels beforehand, had been tossed an unlikely bone-operations in Indo-China and Thailand. The Dutch had been left out altogether. And yet the Allied Supreme Command demanded Chinese troops, airmen and goods in Burma; then proceeded to Java and began to tell the Dutch what...
...against time and distance Thomas Hutton and Donald Stevenson had to do the best they could with what was available, and look to the west and north for more. Down from China marched troops from Chiang Kai-shek's Army. The defenders of the Far East could only hope that many more reinforcements of men and planes were coming from the west...
...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...
Because he is too big to be put under even the Wavell hat, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was given supreme command over land and air forces of the Allies in the China area. Besides-and this was a significant clue as to the possible operation of the joint command-the Gissimo will lead in "such portions of Indo-China and Thailand as may be available to troops of the united nations...