Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From their bases in Australia and Hawaii, from secret spots in the vast expanse of the Pacific, U.S. submarines range up to Hong Kong. The first sub sinking admitted by Japan (last January) was only 75 miles southeast of Yokohama. Some U.S. subs have penetrated Tokyo Bay to gather information...
TIME'S Correspondent Theodore H. White last week cabled from Chungking this dispatch on starvation in China:
Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin returned to Chungking last week from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all...
One of last week's statements of long-term democratic logic came from WTendell Willkie who had the advantage of being free from the close contacts of U.S. politics. Said he from Chungking:
When the echoes of U.S. criticisms (that Willkie had no right to make such moral commitments for the U.S.) reached Chungking, Willkie snorted, "I speak for myself alone and I say what I damn please." When the subject was put up to Mr. Roosevelt in press conference, he did not...