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Another time limit weighs upon Tokyo. It is set by U.S. aid to China, trickling now, rising steadily, destined to rise & rise. Before that stream of aid becomes a torrent the Japanese must crush Chiang Kai-shek's armies or face defeat...
...focal point of all communications feeding the central front south of the Yangtze. Into Changsha for redistribution poured men and arms from Chungking, gasoline and supplies from the Burma Road, food from neighboring rice country. If Changsha was in Japanese hands, there were dark days ahead for Chiang Kai-shek's Armies to the north and east...
...weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China...
This war of nerves was especially displeasing to friends of the U.S. in Chinese councils. But there is a strong minority of Government officials which for years has urged Chinese rapprochement with Germany. For years Chiang Kai-shek has insisted that China's lot lies with the democracies. Yet if all of Russia falls, Germany and China will be neighbors. Chiang Kai-shek would strike a bargain with the devil in order to save China from the Japanese...
...death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...