Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler Now? If the Allies took the road to Russia, they might have to leave other roads open-Japan's roads to Australia and India; Germany's beckoning roads beyond the Balkans and Turkey to the oil of the Near East, her road through Malta, Cyprus and Libya...
The Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped...
Shy, determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan's Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan smack on the tung-oil barrel head-nearly two years before the...
When General Stilwell arrived in Chungking a fortnight ago, on a special mission for President Roosevelt, the Chinese welcomed an old friend who literally spoke their language. Joseph Stilwell began to learn Chinese in 1919 (when he was a captain, 15 years out of West Point). Later the Army sent...
In the Army they say of Joseph Stilwell that he is much more likely to be in a sleeping bag with troops than holed up in some comfortable headquarters. Last week Chinese and British officers on the Burma front (see p. 20) heard General Stilwell's "Yah!" He had...