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Although the Chinese thought they should be getting a lot more help from their allies, they gave Wendell Willkie the biggest reception yet. It was bigger than Jawaharlal Nehru got in 1939, than Lauchlin Currie got in 1941. Even the Japanese contributed: Japanese scouting planes, looking for Willkie, nosed toward...
Chungking made itself ready. The Official guest bungalow, bright as its rhododendrons, was equipped with a powerful radio, a cook who could range from ham & eggs to Szechwan duck, and-another great luxury for China-soft toilet paper. But Wendell Willkie would only have to look out of his windows...
After three days in outlying Chinese cities, Willkie arrived at Chungking's suburban airport in a Douglas piloted by Baltimore-born Moon Chen, first man to complete a flight across the Himalayas. A welcoming crowd of 10,000 was headed by Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, U.S. Ambassador...
Then the heavy program began. Willkie was driven through Chungking's crowded, cheering streets. He visited a meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the...
It was obvious that the Chinese, like the Russians, enjoyed Wendell Willkie. And he would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as...