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China's War Minister Ho Ying-chin warned the world (see p. 18) that Japan would probably launch an attack on Russia within a month. In Chungking the official Central Daily News did a little goading: "Russia . . . should take the initiative and strike first, rather than wait to be...
The result is the Air Force which so far has had its way in the southwest Pacific. It is not the Air Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving...
In northern Burma, a Chinese attack comforted, if it did not materially relieve, the British near Rangoon. Tiny, merry Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chungking's Minister of Information, discouraged descriptions of China's Burmese activity as a major offensive. Chinese armies, he said significantly, were always making little...
The Harassed Doctor. The man whose job it has been to try to stem China's inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the...
And yet the Chinese, as always, took their bitterness manfully. Dr. Chiang, closing the conference on Chungking hill, looked back on China's years of war: "Night fell early upon China's independence," he said. "But we held on, hoping against hope. Then at midnight, at the darkest...