Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Red Cross official in China, who recently returned to the United States, tells of a visit he made to Chungking. . . . Seven times that day Japanese planes had raided the city and dropped bombs. The Generalissimo explained that they were trying to find out where he was staying. After a...
The explanation came out of Chungking. The "air units" were merely ground crews, technicians, front men. They were a token of planes to come, but on the Chekiang-Kiangsi front, where the situation was desperate, the time for planes was now.
In Chungking, Gissimo Chiang Kai-shek is as famous for his timing as a Swiss watch. But last week, at the moment when he made this statement, the news seemed to shout that he had his schedule of optimism all mixed up.
Apologia for Optimism. The Gissimo had his reasons: the day he made his statement (but, significantly, the day before it was announced) three top-ranking U.S. generals-Brereton of the U.S. Air Forces in India, Chennault of the A.V.G., Stilwell of Burma-met with the Gissimo in Chungking. Two of...
Franklin Roosevelt was convinced. He had riffled through reports from Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell in Burma; he had read correspondence from the efficient, silent Magruder mission in Chungking; he had seen transcripts of official Chinese broadcasts from XGOY, Chungking. He needed no more persuasion. He wrote: