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...year opened, the rival forces sat quiescent. There had been a lull ever since the Japanese capture of Hankow in October 1938. The Japanese were waiting for Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater...
...also takes two to conclude any peace not imposed by over whelming victory. Aside from military and economic near-failure, main impediment to Japan in concluding the war in China has been Japan's own refusal to deal with the only authoritative representative of the Chinese people-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japan's new Cabinet hit upon an Oriental device to deal with Chiang, yet seem...
Well might Chungking gloat. For the first time, a recognized Japanese spokesman had suggested peace to Chiang Kaishek. Japan's Army has always insisted that Chiang had to go before it would even talk about peace. The Navy, arguing that it would be folly to conclude a nominal peace affecting only the occupied areas, has favored going straight to the Generalissimo. Japan's new Premier, Mitsumasa Yonai, is Commander in Chief of the Navy. It looked last week as though some day the right men in Japan might get talking with the right men in China...
Elected first president of the Harvard Club of Chungking, temporary capital of China, was owl-eyed, moon-faced T. V. Soong ('15), "China's Smartest Banker" and Chiang Kai-shek's brother...
...Died. Chiang Mao, first of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's two wives, shelved and pensioned by him at $3,000 Mex per month for life; when her house collapsed during a Japanese aerial bombardment; in Chikow, China...