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...economic, political and military cooperation which would have pleased Sun Yatsen. China's first great republican leader envisioned the Northwest's potentially rich 1,950,754 sq. mi. (pop. 21,000,000) as a new home for millions of Chinese from overpopulated areas. His San Min Chu I (principles of free government) have been brought by war to southern provinces once considered a political hinterland. So now night the northwest provinces be woven into the pattern of Chinese national unity...
China's spokesmen in the U.S. politely but insistently emphasized her immediate need. Major General Chu Shih-ming, Chinese Military Attache in Washington, declared that with a well-balanced force of 500 U.S. bombers and fighters, China's armies could take the offensive; in other words, 500 would be enough to save China for the present...
...General Chu and Claire Chennault will certainly have at least 500 planes, and have them soon, if War & Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...
...Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times...
...R.A.F. men in slate blue. U.S. Army and Air Force men in their brown blouses and "pink" slacks. The British have the third floor, U.S. officers the second floor. On the first floor is the promise of even wider cooperation. There are quartered the Chinese, headed by Major General Chu Shih-ming; there also are the beginnings of representation for The Netherlands, Australia...