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Fittingly enough, the strategy of unity was first proposed by the first victim of Axis aggression, China. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week suggested the immediate formation of an Allied High Command. Britain responded by directing General Sir Archibald Wavell to further British cooperation with China. Anthony Eden...
For three years the Japanese had been bombing China from the coast. Their bombs had crunched through the masonry of every major provincial capital in Free China. They had laughed at the ineffectual popping of Chungking's worn anti-aircraft guns, had shot down fledglings of the Chinese Air...
Last year lean, hardbitten, taciturn Colonel Claire L. Chennault (U.S. Army, retired), adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force, left Chungking for the U.S. He rounded up U.S. volunteers to fly 100 new P-40s purchased from the U.S. If U.S. aid were to flow in over the...
Last week ten Japanese bombers came winging their carefree way up into Yunnan, heading directly for Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road. Thirty miles south of Kunming, the Flying Tigers swooped, let the Japanese have it. Of the ten bombers, said Chungking reports, four plummeted to earth in flames...
The dangers of Japanese and Axis radio propaganda from the Far East were brought home to the U.S. last week in dispatches from Chungking and in the deep radio voice of a worn, heavy man named Carroll Alcott. The dispatches indicated that Jap broadcasts from scores of stations in Japan...