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Withdrawing into the vastness of Asia is no new idea to Russian officials. Since 1928, chief trend of the three Five-Year Plans has been to open up Siberia and the East. Designated for years as Russia's "Chungking" has been Sverdlovsk, 950 miles east of Moscow in the...
A lean, bespectacled man will take off for Chungking next week from the U.S.; he can say nothing of his mission, for he is to lead the second A.E.F., advance guard in the Battle of the Pacific. At the beginning of this year, Chiang Kaishek, anticipating American aid (TIME, June...
"Japan demonstrates to the world at large the solemn fact that it respects the independence and sovereignty of the National Government of China, but does not recognize the sovereignty of Chungking. This is calculated to produce a very serious effect on Chungking and on third powers." . . .
Chinese reaction to all this was mixed. In Chungking, the people already had visions of hordes of American planes darkening the skies. The new airfields-cleared and rolled by the forced labor of thousands of peasants-were ready for U.S.-made bombers. Even Flying Fortresses were said, by Chungking gossip...
1. Drove on to within 150 miles of Chungking.