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...Chennault's refutation of General Stilwell's record is emasculated in its own turn by the fact that . . . [he] presently makes a very handsome living from the operation of an airline which lifts relief supplies for the Chinese government. It is not likely that he would jeopardize his livelihood by voicing anything but fulsome praise for Chiang...
...random papers. The collection, edited and liberally annotated by White (who shares Stilwell's hatred of the Chinese government and his warm regard for the Chinese Communists), appeared this week in the current issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. As if in answer, Major General Claire L. Chennault, who commanded the Fourteenth Air Force at Kunming under Stilwell, is writing his very different version of the tragic story for the Scripps-Howard newspapers...
...acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...
...Chennault says that Stilwell never once asked him to present an airman's picture of the China war. Chennault believes that Stilwell's initial defeat by the Japanese in Burma led to his obsession with the planning of a second Burma campaign which was to vindicate Stilwell's military reputation. Chennault traces many of Stilwell's mistakes in his relations with the Chinese to his preoccupation with the reopening of the Burma Road, which Chennault believes was a nearly valueless objective. Actually, the damage was done before the first Burma campaign...
...troop training and tactical command. He believed that the Chinese soldier could be made into a first-class fighting man, and he proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced." The accent is on "divisional...