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Peace Coup? Under Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, China has superabundant morale for resistance, but determination will not ground enemy airplanes or choke rifles. So strong, however, is the determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is improbable. What is perhaps more possible, certainly what the Japanese hope for, is some sort of coup within Chungking -some violent episode of treachery like the famous Sian kidnapping of Chiang...
...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...
Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
...patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating...
...hours later Japanese Army communiques said that Chinese troops had forced their way into part of Kaifeng at 5 a.m. but were driven out at 2 p.m. The Japanese count: 150 Chinese dead, five Japanese, including one Japanese major. Sadly next day Chiang Kai-shek's spokesman admitted that "the first provincial capital recaptured" was being evacuated by the Chinese...