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Last week Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
When proper Sir Archibald arrived at Shanghai he would say no more than that he had found Chiang "well-very fit and optimistic-serenely confident of ultimate victory." What he did not say-and what officials in China's new capital at Chung-king did say-was that the fit Generalissimo had just talked to the proper Ambassador more plainly than any big Chinese had ever talked to a big Britisher...
...Chiang Kai-shek is fighting a war and he has less interest than Mr. Chamberlain in long-range economic ideas about China. The Generalissimo flatly told Ambassador Sir Archibald that the loss of Canton was attributable to China's misplaced confidence in Britain...
...miles below Canton, Chinese military heads decided not to fortify the city, left it defended by untrained provincial troops. Japanese commanders decided on the South China campaign only after Britain's capitulation at Munich convinced them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells, as Chinese regulars, out to recapture Canton, pushed their front to within 40 miles of the city...
Three weeks ago Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, impressed by the guerrilla successes, announced a policy of nationwide hit-&-run attacks for the armed forces under his control. This week the Chinese Government at Chungking, headed by President Lin Sen, whose relationship to the Generalissimo corresponds to that of Soviet Russia's President Kalinin to Dictator Stalin, gave to Chinese guerrilla leaders (many of whom are civilians and thus, theoretically, not under army orders) enlarged powers to carry on their attacks behind the Japanese lines. That this order was hardly necessary was apparent from an admission by the official spokesman...