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...Russian defensive remained to be developed. Remembering how they beat Napoleon-and perhaps Chiang Kai-shek's defense of China-the Russians have the option of using the size of their country as a weapon to wear down the enemy. On the first day mass flights of Russian bombers attacked East Prussia. But Red withdrawal would eventually be necessary, because the position held by the Russians was dangerous; in the initial phases geography was on the side of the Germans...
...connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw that land into civil war between Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists, thus free Japanese troops for movement southward. In short, to Japan's advocates of force, last week looked like a good week to get going...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...
Still carrying on at his desk, although relieved of his post and title by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek because of the catastrophe, was plucky, chubby Mayor K. C. ("Casey") Wu, still proud of his municipal-built dugouts. The confidence of Chungking's fighting little men in their Air-Raid Protective System, still the world's best, was, however, shaken...
Western scales and harmonies do not seem to alarm the Chinese now. Their most popular song is March of the Volunteers, whose spare, vigorous melody was lately sung to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek by a group of children who had wandered 10,000 miles seeking refuge...