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...were as dumfounding as if a Japanese poet had suddenly expressed a profound loathing for the sight of moonrise over the Inland Sea. Some Far Eastern experts at once suspected all manner of guile behind the Japanese words. It was suggested that Japan was jockeying for a peace with Chiang Kaishek, preferably for one which would bind him to join Japan in war on the Chinese Communists...
Resistance is the one language in peace or war that the Japanese can be counted on to understand, and General Chiang's resistance to Japan has presumably been stiffened by the U.S. loan of $50,000,000 to Chungking, which has drawn many Chinese bankers to that city from Shanghai. Last week as Chungking got its 114th bombing-as usual a poor exchange of Japanese steel and high explosives for Chinese brick and rubble-Far Easterners began referring to Chungking as the economic center of China. A popular Chinese witticism about U.S. aid-"Loud noise on staircase but nobody...
...China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
Hochi published a list of five demands on Russia to reinforce the pact, most important of which was the demand that Russia stop helping China's Chiang Kaishek. Russia, said Hochi, was merely continuing to adhere to "the utilitarian policy of waiting for Japan, Germany and Italy to become exhausted in order to fish in troubled waters...
...Abend sees nothing funny in the Far East. His book covers more ground than Young's, is tense, timely, ominous. Abend never lived long in Japan. But as New York Times correspondent, he spent 14½ years covering China. More than once he was in hot water with Chiang Kai-shek's Government for his realistic reporting. When the Japanese got to China, Timesman Abend was in hot water all the time. Japan's Washington embassy had called Abend's dispatches "more fair and just than any news reports coming out of China." The Japanese Army...