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Last week Clarence Gauss, called home by the State Department, returned to Washington, conferred briefly with the President, was mum to reporters. Then he left for a vacation in California. Even Mr. Gauss would be surprised if he went to Chungking as Ambassador again.
Democracy's Answer. Yet the great peace did not yet seem to be in the making. All the way from West Africa to Chungking, Willkie found "worry and doubt in the hearts and minds of people behind the fighting fronts. They were searching for a common purpose. . . . The whole...
Late in February, a Japanese spokesman announced that Japan was about to open an all-out drive for the destruction of the Chungking regime. Since then there have been military actions scattered all over China (see map). Militarily they have not been on a scale worthy of the spokesman'...
Then, just as quickly and to the tune of triumphant Chungking communiqués, they drew back again, holding the important lakehead town of Hwa-jung (pronounced hwa-roong). The Chinese mounted diversionary attacks farther north, on the line between Ichang and Anlu.
How Long? How Strong? The Chinese, sensing the potential effectiveness of this insidious campaign, urged loudly last week that the Allies act quickly against Japan. In Chungking the official newspaper Ta Kung Pao recalled that the great Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, advocated the crushing of the weakest adversary first. The...