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General Lo Tse-kai, chief of staff, surprised the newsmen by stating flatly that the famous Communist Eighth Route Ar my had never fought the Japanese. Asked why the Japanese continually reported clashes with the Communists, he snapped: "If you believe the Japs, why is America fighting Japan?" Lo Tse-kai denied that his troops had ever received Lend-Lease aid, though as he spoke a flight of U.S.-built planes roared overhead, enroute to the Honan front...
...track. Sometimes he would have dozens of horses in scores of parlays all over the nation. The hours he spent handicapping them were as nothing to the time consumed in trying to figure out whether he had won $10 or lost $70. Ultimately his bookie took pity on him, ar ranged to return 50% of the money, win, lose or scratch...
...nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
...Arkansas to the finals, that he sought escape by pacing up & down the Boardwalk. Wherever he saw a crowd gathered around a weight-guesser or a salt-water-taffy artist, Politician James would step up and give the crowd a lesson in pronouncing the name of his home state: AR-can-saw, not ar-KANZUSS...
...Seagrave joked about the British demands, but when General Stilwell ar rived to take charge of the Chinese arm ies in Burma at the end of March 1942, the doctor promptly asked to be allowed to take care of the Fifth Army in central Burma as well. The general agreed and made him a major. He is now a lieutenant colonel...