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This ambitious remark is from one of Chiang Kai-shek's war messages (October 1938 to January 1940) published by Chungking's China Publishing Co. Though strictly official, this book tells more that needed to be known about China than a thousand travelers' tales. It includes Chiang's letters, broadcasts, telegrams...
There has been plenty to read about China and Chiang Kai-shek in the past. But much of it has come via leftist pipelines. Typical are books like Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (TIME, Jan. 10, 1938) ; Agnes Smedley's China's Red Army Marches; Andpe Malraux's Man's Fate, in which Chiang's officers are shown parboiling live Communists in a locomotive boiler. Some of these writers have suggested that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping...
...picture that emerges from Chiang's book is somewhat different. It is that of a man supremely busy fighting the world's battle, taking time out when necessary to clarify what he is doing in sensible and important words-words to which almost nobody outside China and Japan pays attention...
Britain at Japan's request closes China's vital Burma Road, later reopens it. The U.S. continues to ship oil and gasoline for Japanese bombers. But Chiang goes on holding his two-thousand-mile front, trusting that the democracies will get around to helping him while there is still time for him to help them...
...without reason has Chiang a sense of destiny. Said Dr. Sun Yatsen, whom Chiang once called "Teacher" and succeeded as leader of the Chinese revolution: "To save our country is also to save the world." Said Napoleon: "When China moves, she will move the world...