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High Aims. After seven days as a witness in the Pearl Harbor inquiry, General of the Army George C. Marshall got off by plane to Chungking and his new mission: to bring an end to China's civil strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put on official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang...
Shanghai was the focus of a loosely knit and potentially dangerous Japanese fifth column. U.S. newsmen reported that it was composed of Black Dragon terrorists and diehard operatives of Japanese intelligence services. The fifth-column objectives were said to be: 1) promoting anti-democratic propaganda; 2) promoting Chinese civil strife...
...critic of Chiang, as the Chinese Communists and many a U.S. leftist would surely label it? The policymakers' answer on this point is a strong no; the U.S. does not intend to intervene in China's internal affairs. But the U.S. cannot permit China's civil strife to interfere with the discharge of solemn U.S. obligations to the Chinese Government-chief among them the removal of the Japanese from China...
Despite such fraternal strife among Arab and Jewish leaders, the peoples themselves still mingled in Jerusalem, a common holy place, on terms of surprising amity. They felt that, even if the current crisis exploded in civil war, Jew and Arab would continue to live together in Palestine for a long time...
Dear Lord: In the battle that goes through life, I ask but a field that is fair, A chance that is equal with all in the strife, A courage to strive and to dare. And if I should win, let this be the code: With my faith and my honor held high. And if I should lose let me stand by the road And cheer as the winners...