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There remained little question but that Russia would last out the winter, would fight hard next year, would go on resisting somehow from some mountain Chungking. The laggard democracies would have more precious time to gird for the job of beating Hitler. It would be an awesome job, but now...
Russians have had a great reputation for industrial fallibility. They have been dismissed as Orientals, incapable of understanding machines. But one set of Orientals, the Chinese, withdrew in the face of military reverses to China's mountains, and there succeeded in pinning down 1,000,000 Japanese soldiers for...
Married. Dr. John Lossing Buck, University of Nanking professor, ex-husband of Pulitzer Prize Novelist Pearl Buck; and Chang Lo-mei, his secretary; in Chungking.
When Hankow fell three years ago the warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own...
Daddy's Job. To collect, store and distribute millions of tons of grain was a job for a big man. Chiang turned it over to the big man who does most of his big jobs: his moon-faced brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, Finance Minister and Vice...