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Mme. Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame...
Shangri-La. One afternoon at the end of March, 16 B-25s were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama...
It was a moment, as always, to look before and after. In Chungking, it was an occasion for parades, for orators declaiming from platforms draped with red-&-blue flags. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek had hurried home, after a seven-and-a-half-month absence and a return trip of 14...
TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White, in a cable from Chungking, pointed out another significance:
Chiang Wei-kuo, who escorted Wendell Willkie during his visit to China last year, went to Chungking on leave from his army duties. In the Generalissimo's simple home, the family's great & good friend Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen baptized the convert. He and his Methodist father...