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Some observers in Chungking jumped to the conclusion that Manchuria might be "irretrievably lost" to the Central Government. The facts were grave, but not quite so catastrophic.
Promise v. Fulfillment. The Russians had promised to begin evacuating Manchuria three weeks after the end of the Japanese war. Apparently they were keeping the letter, if not the spirit, of their pledge. The Red Army had withdrawn from much of southern Manchuria; by early December the evacuation should be...
But Chungking reported last week that Soviet dilatoriness had "much affected" the feasibility of the landing. That was a diplomatic way of saying that Chinese Communists had surrounded Changchun airfield.
Until next spring there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the...
In hoping that we could foster peace by redeploying the Government armies where they could command peace, we neglected to consider the consequences of failure. We pursued a policy of optimism based on Chungking's hope that the Stalin-Soong agreement would quiet China's Communists and that...