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China on India. Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and...
To hold such assets as the two big fields and all the other subsidiary airdromes built with plodding care, and not to be able to use them for lack of bombers, was tough. But the Chinese fought on, took great cuts of the eastern railroads, pressed south as well as...
On the sad Sunday of Sept. 3, 1939, when Britain entered another state of war against Germany, Dr. Quo Taichi, Chinese Ambassador to London, took a late afternoon stroll in his garden. He looked up into the dull grey skies. "Soon," said he, "the air is going to be black...
The Chinese Rejoiced. As Chungking finished its day of celebration, she listened to more good news. A British R.A.F. was taking shape in China, would soon add its strength to the Americans'. The Chinese were grateful indeed. But China's ultimate hope was a self-reliant force of...
From Chungking went an appeal to President Roosevelt for more planes. Said the commander of the First Route Air Force: China must also make its own machines, produce its own fuel, train its own personnel. Said veteran General Ho, winding things up: "This day next year we want to turn...