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...subtle twist in this morale offensive, which was aimed at Chungking in general and at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since...
...Chinese revolutionaries hounded churchmen from one end of the Yangtze to the other as "running dogs of imperialism"-and the imperialism they hated was largely Anglo-American. Today England and America, no longer hated, are two Christian friends on whose support Christian Chiang Kai-shek is counting to free China from the non-Christian Japanese invaders. And the popular identification of Christianity with the Nationalist cause has gone so far that the China-trained head of the world Y.M.C.A., Eugene E. Barnett, has actually called it a "disastrous danger," fearing that religion may become the lesser half of the partnership...
...precipitous outward flow of missionaries has been reversed. Chiang Kai-shek not only invites all missionaries forced to leave Japanese-held areas to come to the interior, but his Ministry of Finance makes all arrangements to fly them free of charge from Hong Kong to Chungking. Businessmen, officials, visitors wait bookings on the crowded planes but missionaries are given seats. Last week eight more U.S. and Canadian churchmen reached the capital from Occupied China; well over 100 have arrived since January. Four-fifths of the Americans now in Free China are church workers...
...Chungking Currie went everywhere, saw and talked to everyone. To Chiang Kai-shek and the Government, uncertain of President Roosevelt's Far Eastern policy, the very presence of one of Roosevelt's right-hand men was a stimulant. Still more so were his suggestions about land taxes...
...gravest dangers to Chiang Kai-shek's Government has long been the rival influence of his Communist allies-whose Army he had recently to discipline (TIME, Feb. 3). If Chiang and the Communists get to fighting, Free China's goose is cooked. The Communists undermine his power by promising to free the peasants from the oppression of the landlords. Why not, Currie suggested, raise needed revenue and undercut Communist influence by taxing the landlords while feeding and pleasing the peasants...