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This is a memorable place-the top spot of the circle which the Japanese Army drew around the Army of Chiang Kai-shek which was trying to counterattack Nanning...
...Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fortnight ago, notifying him that its objectives had been reached, was a plea for peace. It was nothing more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would...
...peace likely? As long as Japanese soldiers remain on South Chinese soil, no. As long as the Japanese refuse to discuss terms with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek himself-not the "Chungking Government"-no. A remote chance for peace (for a time) lies in the Japanese withdrawing to the five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses...
...being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts of Dr. Kung's handsome, shy, studious, English-speaking, 23-year-old son David ("Prince David"). The latter was something almost no one knew. He had disappeared...
This did not mean peace. Not until the Japanese are driven or withdraw from all China will Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek even talk peace. But it did mean a breather for weary China, and it meant, too, that even if Japanese armies can still whip the Chinese, economic and political troubles in Tokyo have seriously checked the Japanese army...