Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down on a Chungking airport came a big C-54 from over the Hump. Out stepped three U.S. guests of China: WPBoss Donald Nelson, dressed in a snappy blue suit and blue tie; Major General Patrick Hurley, wearing a bush jacket; and General Joseph Stilwell, in khaki field jacket. On...
Chungking observers speculated: the mission was a fruit of Vice President Henry Wallace's visit last May. Within a measurable period of time, U.S. supplies-via either the Burma Road or the Pacific -will be flowing into China. Basic principles, commitments of one Government to the other, must be...
In Chungking voices rose & fell in the inflection of the four Chinese tones. The most outspoken meeting of the People's Political Council in Chungking's history was in progress. One subject was the unity negotiations which have dragged on for more than four months between Chungking and...
Said Communist Spokesman Lin Tso-han: "We would like to have a national congress called immediately." Cried Chungking's Dr. Wang Shih-chieh: "While Manchuria and other provinces are cut off from Free China, nationwide elections are impossible. The Government has promised all parties, including the Communists, equal status...
"Full disclosure of the government's finances is an essential feature of democratic government." This counsel was offered to Chungking three years ago by an American friend and financial adviser, the late A. Manuel Fox, onetime U.S. Tariff Commissioner.