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...beyond the target of his own army's terrible tasks and achieved a global look at World War II. His conclusion: the U.S. and Britain can make their best contribution to the war in 1942 by opening a front in northern Europe. Said bullnecked, moon-faced General Yang Chieh, lecturing to the Chinese War College in Chungking: "In northern Europe ... it would be easiest for Britain, America and Russia to cooperate...
...northern Burma, a Chinese attack comforted, if it did not materially relieve, the British near Rangoon. Tiny, merry Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chungking's Minister of Information, discouraged descriptions of China's Burmese activity as a major offensive. Chinese armies, he said significantly, were always making little offensives and would make big ones only when they had the material wherewithal from...
Urged by Dean Chen, the Chinese Government as a partial remedy moved to revive rural China's ancient festival days, last week stuck a batch of these into its New Style Calendar. Next chieh-chi (traditional festival) will be Li Hsia (Summer Commences) on May 6. The festivities: "Finding out weights of family members. Eating of beans...
Other festivities at chieh-chi later in the year: "Presentation of wheat delicacies by married daughters to their parents. . . . Sacrifices to ancestors. . . . Mothers giving summer clothes to married daughters. . . . Tasting the season's fruits. . . . Playing with singing insects and fire-bees. . . . Appreciating lotus flowers...
While Dean Chen busied himself trying to revive in Free China such chieh-chi, the seasonal cloud bank which has shrouded Chungking and the upper Yangtze valley since last autumn (effectively preventing Japanese air bombing) began fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred...