Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Fairbank worked as an official of the OWI in Chungking during the war. He is head of the Harvard fareastern regional studies staff.
In the early summer of 1939, when the bombings of Chungking began, Theodore H. ("Teddy") White* was a young man just a year out of Harvard, summa cum laude, who had been traveling around the world on a history scholarship. He joined the Chinese in their heroic retreat to the...
In hardship and tragic travail, Chungking was to modern China what Valley Forge was to revolutionary America. But Valley Forge lasted one winter and Chungking lasted seven years.
Annalee Jacoby saw nearly as much of the war. Having gone to Chungking for the United China Relief, she and her fiance, TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby, retired to Manila in November 1941 in order to be married under slightly less uncertain conditions. Within two weeks the Philippines were attacked and...
Warmly endorsing the Nanking government, the Professor paints an encouraging picture of the reconversion of the Chinese nation to an efficient peacetime basis. Were efficiency the highest criterion of government there would be little reason for Americans to withhold judgment on the Nanking government. It does appear to be the...