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...Eulogy By ANNA CHENNAULT...
...absence was scarcely noticed by the 150 invited guests. China's Ambassador to Washington, Zhang Wenjin, continued to hold court in one corner, studiously refusing to note the presence of the legendary General Claire Chennault's widow Anna (Chennault was longtime air adviser to the Nationalists). Former Cabinet Officer Richard Schweiker, now head of an insurance trade group, went right on greeting old political friends. After all, like Louis B. Mayer and his famous meetings, Washington's power elite does not attend a party-it takes a party. For that, the presence of the host is hardly...
Buffett treats this romance in his own tunes as well as through covers of others' songs. The title track, dedicated to "The Crazy Flying Tigers," commemorates Claire Chennault and his band of fighter pilots in the war-torn China of the 1940s. The realists may complain that Buffett paints a naively roseate picture of the Flying Tigers, ignoring accidents, enemy gunfire, lice-ridden facilties and other, equally factual aspects of the adventure. Shut up and relax, they must be told, for this album is a romantic interlude, not a History 1711 text...
...Japanese had whorehouses for their troops, the Prussians had whorehouses for their troops; the French had whorehouses for their troops. But not the U.S. Army, goddamn it; the U.S. Army would not fly whores across the Hump in Air Corps planes; it established no brothels for its men. Chennault wanted only to keep his planes flying and would do anything necessary to keep them in the air, to deliver his message with bombs. Stilwell had the morality of Oliver Cromwell-he was pure, absolutely pure, of graft, adultery, lying, thieving, or any transgression of the Ten Commandments. Such men served...
...Welch [Robert Welch, Founder of the Society] learned to read at age two" --the official biography says he was three. And she told me that John Birch, who was a fundamentalist missionary to China in the early 1940's and later became an intelligence agent for Gen. Clair Chennault in China, was "ruthlessly murdered by the Russian Communists in 1945." Welch's definitive Life of John Birch (1954) says that the "bloodthirsty killers" were Chinese Communists...