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In a historic statement of U.S. policy, Franklin Roosevelt last week told the world that the U.S. will defend not only Britain, not only the U.S., but China too. "Hitler's plan of world domination would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Realism in the Far East | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Resistance is the one language in peace or war that the Japanese can be counted on to understand, and General Chiang's resistance to Japan has presumably been stiffened by the U.S. loan of $50,000,000 to Chungking, which has drawn many Chinese bankers to that city from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Japan Admits It | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

In China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

3) Most important of all, the coast drive was intended to shake Chungking into a receptive mood for a peace drive. Chungking morale was already badly shaken by the Pact (TIME, April 28). One of its first visible effects in Chungking had been the withdrawal of 26 out of 37...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Coast Drive for Peace Drive | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

A subtle twist in this morale offensive, which was aimed at Chungking in general and at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Coast Drive for Peace Drive | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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