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...cable of thanks to relief officials last week, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek said Chinese morale had been notably boosted by "the unprecedented scale of the present American . . . assistance to China." The American Friends Service Committee said it was sending an ambulance corps of 50 U.S., British and Canadian citizens, ten ambulances to China for duty on the Burma Road...
...before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
Land of the flying horse, of dwarfs and golden monkeys and of citizens with tails is China's province of Szechwan, the Western Heavens of the ancient poets. Here are houses built with small doors so that giants may not enter; here live Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and 46,823,665 people, and here is the world's only source of giant pandas...
From the Far East, too, blew rumors of peace. Japan was coming to terms with the Chinese Communists, who would then take care of Chiang Kaishek; only the U.S. kept Chiang still fighting; Japan was sounding out the U.S. on mediation in China...
Last week Chiang Kai-shek vented strong pro-American sentiments, declaring that "any country in the world matching itself against American democracy would meet with certain destruction." He added that with material and economic aid China would undertake to defeat Japan without the help of a foreign expeditionary force or naval action...