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...been going through a convulsive social revolution. Since 1937, almost singlehanded, she had been holding off the Japanese invaders from without. At the same time she had held off the Communists from within. To win against overwhelming Japanese odds, she had retreated from Peiping, from Shanghai, from Nanking, from Canton. To seal off the Communists, she had maintained a blockade against Yenan. Time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had reasoned, would give his Allies a chance to come to China's aid. So he had traded space for time. But after seven years of unflagging resistance, tired China was running...
When he came out of Harvard and Columbia 29 years ago, T.V. went to work for a New York bank, soon shifted to business in Canton, swiftly swept to a high position in Chinese finance and government. In matters of currency, politics and foreign policy he became Chiang's troubleshooter. Last February, when he lost the presidency of the powerful Bank of China, his career suffered an eclipse. Now it shines promisingly again...
...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your...
Scorched Airfields. In skillfully coordinated pincers drives the Japanese sent a powerful column from Canton up the West River. With their garrison divisions leavened by 20,000 freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
...Japanese did not drive directly into Kweilin; they circled it to the south. But this made little difference; they were already in sight of their objective: driving the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force out of southeast China.* The Fourteenth still had four strips, now all doomed, east of the Hankow-Canton railway. Soon only the biggest of Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault's air forces to support...