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The Job. For pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar...
In Chungking, Gissimo Chiang Kai-shek is as famous for his timing as a Swiss watch. But last week, at the moment when he made this statement, the news seemed to shout that he had his schedule of optimism all mixed up.
Apologia for Optimism. The Gissimo had his reasons: the day he made his statement (but, significantly, the day before it was announced) three top-ranking U.S. generals-Brereton of the U.S. Air Forces in India, Chennault of the A.V.G., Stilwell of Burma-met with the Gissimo in Chungking. Two of...
John Hersey, who speaks Chinese almost as well as English and knows what it's like to be bombed in Chungking . . . Sherry Mangan, who held down the Paris office all through the fall of France, then spent a year in the Buenos Aires office.
Chungking reported Sunday that heavy fighting was continuing in coastal Chekiang province, southeast of Shanghai, following the Japanese capture of the provisional provincial capital and key communications center, Kinhwa, and claimed that the Japanese had won their victories only by using "poison gas."