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...Progress. Chiang Kai-shek's 300-odd divisions-3,000,000 soldiers facing Japan's estimated 800,000 (30 or more divisions) on the 2,000-mile China front -believed that the Japanese could do no more against them than they had been doing. Only if Japan chose to throw in another 20 or 30 divisions was there more than a remote possibility of Chinese defeat. And those divisions seemed earmarked for another purpose: the invasion of eastern Siberia...
...through Szechwan Province last week the squealing of unoiled wheelbarrows made sensitive eardrums quiver. Rice was wheeling in-tons of rice in dust-coated, round, bulging sacks. In the ears of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the sound was a screech of victory. It meant that Szechwan, Chungking's Province, at last...
...itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...
...short life of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Japan, fearful of this unexpected move on the part of her traditional enemy, found it wise to turn smilingly to America. Despite all talk of economic sanctions, we continued to help both aggressor and aggressee by loans to China to enable Chiang Kai-shek to carry on his part of the war, and by huge shipments of materials to the invader as well. Since 1937, the American market has been the single most important adjunct of Japan's war machine, enabling the destructive military operations to be continued on an evergrowing scale...
...marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school in The Bronx. Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia turned down a WPA "national defense project": study of the home life of fish. Hedy Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret...