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...China Provinces. Though the clashes probably foretold no civil war, they marked the fact that relations of Government and Communists were no better than they were during January of this year, when bitter civil war broke out briefly among Chinese Reds and regulars along the lower Yangtze. Once again Chiang was reminded of his post-war rendezvous-the final settling of Nationalist-Communist differences when China is eventually free of the Japanese...
Simply and frankly, Chiang discusses all phases of the national struggle with the Chinese people-without concealments, without false optimism, without a misplaced sense of humor. When the Chinese Armies evacuated Wuhan in 1938, Chiang immediately explained the reasons...
...Chiang never admits the possibility of defeat. After 18 months of bombings and thousand-mile retreats, he told the central committee of the Kuomintang: "From what I have said you can clearly see how Japan has worked her own ruin and has sealed her own doom. If Japan should emerge victorious in the present hostilities, then all existing military theories and principles of military strategy would be disproved. . . . We must fight to the end not only to upset the enemy's plan of a quick victory but also to prevent him from gaining a premature peace. This...
With disloyalists like Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei and other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take lessons from the annals of the Sung and Ming Dynasties. The fall of these two dynasties was not caused by outside enemies with a superior force, but by a dispirited and cowardly minority in the governing class and the society of the time. . . . If we do not destroy ourselves...
...labor battalions; new Slav divisions to swell the Nazi Armies. Where can Britain and the U.S. turn for man power to offset this menacing mass? If Britain is democracy's European bastion, the U.S. democracy's arsenal, China is its untapped source of vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will, and one of Germany's elastic frontiers may soon be Chinese Turkestan...