Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Chinese thought they should be getting a lot more help from their allies, they gave Wendell Willkie the biggest reception yet. It was bigger than Jawaharlal Nehru got in 1939, than Lauchlin Currie got in 1941. Even the Japanese contributed: Japanese scouting planes, looking for Willkie, nosed toward...
Chungking made itself ready. The Official guest bungalow, bright as its rhododendrons, was equipped with a powerful radio, a cook who could range from ham & eggs to Szechwan duck, and-another great luxury for China-soft toilet paper. But Wendell Willkie would only have to look out of his windows...
After three days in outlying Chinese cities, Willkie arrived at Chungking's suburban airport in a Douglas piloted by Baltimore-born Moon Chen, first man to complete a flight across the Himalayas. A welcoming crowd of 10,000 was headed by Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, U.S. Ambassador...
Though a praiseworthy stimulous to morale, the proposed treaty between the United Nations and China which would eliminate all foreign territorial rights in that battle-agonized nation is obviously the substitute which a hard-pressed America and Britain are sending to the East instead of armed strength. For once again...
Two Hosts. Driven frantic by spiraling inflation, still far from driving the Japs into the sea, menaced by the turmoil in India, China still has many li to travel before achieving unity and victory. But it has been over a year since there were any serious clashes with Chinese Communists...