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CHINA FIGHTS ON-WAR MESSAGES OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK-Chungking: China Publishing...
Fifteen months after the Japanese invaded China, Chiang Kai-shek told his nation: "Future historians will, I believe, regard our war of resistance as the most significant event in this period of world history, since by our enormous sacrifices we are contributing not only to the good of the Chinese nation but also to the welfare of all mankind. ... If we succeed, we shall not only be able to build a new China but we shall also contribute immeasurably to the peace of the world...
...lean, bespectacled man will take off for Chungking next week from the U.S.; he can say nothing of his mission, for he is to lead the second A.E.F., advance guard in the Battle of the Pacific. At the beginning of this year, Chiang Kaishek, anticipating American aid (TIME, June 30), had requested that the U.S. send him a personal adviser and liaison man. The man would have all the mysterious dignities and influences of the legendary Australian, William Henry Donald, for a generation adviser to the Chinese great. (Donald left last year, is rumored on his way back.) Franklin Roosevelt...
Curtiss P-40s were already winging their way over the mountains of southwest China; in Washington it was said that more hundreds of fighter planes were promised. Oil was at last available-all the oil and gasoline that the thirsty cylinders of Chiang Kai-shek's war machine wanted...
...ever-present threat to Chiang Kai-shek's government...