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Strategy. The headlines pounded with the rich, twisty Balkan names: Zagreb, Cattaro, Salonika, Ljubljana. But the President and his counselors had to watch the whole enormous scene in a world where the U.S. was a fulcrum, balancing Britain in the Western scale with Chungking in the East.
Last week Lauchlin Currie, back in Washington, was still at work on his report to President Roosevelt. The most retiring of the President's "anonymous" assistants, he would not say a word about his trip. But from Chungking bits of news about it came in as fast as the...
Currie lived in a house provided by the Government, had 13 servants. He learned to like sharks' fin. He met people he knew: when he stepped off the plane at Chungking a young Chinese with a Boston accent wagered that Dr. Currie did not remember him. Said Currie: "You...
To Chungking passage of the bill "marked a turning point in world affairs." In Athens the newspaper Kathemerini echoed U. S. isolationists, but in a different tone: "American help will go as far as dispatching military forces to Europe if necessary." In Batavia the Nieuws van den Dag voor N...
You will, no doubt, be interested in the paragraph quoted below from a letter which Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson wrote from Chungking, China to the staff of KGEI, our international short-wave radio station in San Francisco.