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At Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane.
When General Chennault's flyers swept down on Formosa on the most dangerous raid ever attempted by our flyers in China, they took only one newsman along to witness the devastation of the great Shinchiku airdrome. That newsman was Teddy White of TIME'S Chungking Bureau.
Uneasiness grew in Chungking with each new shipment of fresh Chinese bank notes from the U.S. As the big transports from over the Hump brought ton after ton of baled currency, the people who understood took quiet steps and the ones who only sensed something strange became cautious.
A U.S. soldier, standing ankle-deep in Chungking mud, lit a cigaret with a Chinese dollar and laughed. A patient child cut a doll from currency and its mother said nothing. A ricksha coolie, squatting beside the road, thumbed through a fat roll again & again. He waved away a customer...
The longest faces in Chungking today are worn by those who fear that inflation may yet have a profound effect on the silent peasant millions. For 30 years after Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution the slow trend was toward peasant ownership of the parcels tilled; today a new...