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October. With Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek remaining in Chungking, the principal actor in the field is General Ho Ying-chin, commander of all Chinese field forces. U.S. Major General Robert B. McClure, who is in charge of the training program of the Chinese divisions, gave Ho full marks for cooperation and knowledge of his job. "Ho's right on the ball," said General McClure this week, clasping him around the shoulders in a gesture more understandable to Chinese-speaking Ho than McClure's American idiom...
Here is a photograph of the Selma Burke plaque of President Roosevelt. . . . Comparing it with the photograph published in TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at least two inches. . . . I will say, however, that the plaque was extremely hard to photograph, especially with flash, as the light would bounce off the bronze into the lens of the camera. That is undoubtedly the reason the A.P. photographer took the picture from such an extreme offside angle, thereby...
...army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...
...stooping glide, into the Governors' Room, puts a battered, black suitcase on the conference table, and spills out documents giving the secret, depressing details of Britain's economic position. Halifax is chairman of the British delegation, but Lord Keynes does nearly all the talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature of a hard-eyed, thin-lipped Sassenach statesman, rarely makes a remark...
...Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...