Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's Army of good field commanders, indifferent staff officers and middling matériel has not lacked publicity. China's Army is the army nobody knows. The world at large does not know it, because the small corps of foreign correspondents in China feel they must stick...
The Front. A bag of rice-one of many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to...
Politically China's young officers are naive; spiritually they are the ultimate sophisticates. They protest that they are democratic, because democracy was one of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles, and the Army, more than Chungking, mouths the words of China's George Washington. They love the...
In a historic statement of U.S. policy, Franklin Roosevelt last week told the world that the U.S. will defend not only Britain, not only the U.S., but China too. "Hitler's plan of world domination would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is...
Resistance is the one language in peace or war that the Japanese can be counted on to understand, and General Chiang's resistance to Japan has presumably been stiffened by the U.S. loan of $50,000,000 to Chungking, which has drawn many Chinese bankers to that city from...