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Fifteen years ago Christianity in China was in flight. Missionaries, their wives, children and chattels, were pouring out of the interior of China in terrified streams, seeking safety in Shanghai. In Chungking they took refuge with foreign businessmen in a frightened huddle on the South Bank. In Chengtu they gathered...
But in 1941 the Governor of Szechwan Province comes each Sunday morning to worship at the once-beleaguered university chapel in Chengtu. In Chungking, the Christian leader of China rules with his Christian wife, aided by a Christian Finance Minister and a host of other Christian officials.
Last week the Chinese War Ministry announced "the most brilliant military feat of the entire war," with the capture of the outposts of the city of Nanchang and the destruction of 20,000 out of 56,000 Japanese troops. But it was neither so brilliant nor so bold a victory...
Back of these reforms, letter and spirit, one of the strongest influences was the U.S., represented by the bespectacled face of Lauchlin Currie, economic aide to President Roosevelt. Currie went to Chungking early this year, at the invitation of the National Government, to try to unravel its snarled finances, set...
In Chungking Currie went everywhere, saw and talked to everyone. To Chiang Kai-shek and the Government, uncertain of President Roosevelt's Far Eastern policy, the very presence of one of Roosevelt's right-hand men was a stimulant. Still more so were his suggestions about land taxes...