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Even in tragic China the war picture grew brighter for the moment. Japanese commanders, their communications harassed by locomotive-busting Fourteenth Air Force pilots, had been sweeping aside light, ill-armed Chinese troops to smash the U.S. air bases one by one. But last week they tried for Chihkiang, 300...
The busiest doctor in Chungking last week was Chang Chien-tsai, a spidery, parchment-skinned man of 64 who never studied anatomy, dissected a cadaver or saw a microbe. He is one of the 800,000 herb doctors who still provide most of China's medical care. (At the...
A stream of patients keeps Dr. Chang busy in his office from noon until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet...
For example: from Chungking Mr. S. S. Luo of the Chienchwan Coal Mining Co. Ltd. writes that for more than a year now he has taken one full day each week to travel 36 difficult miles on an "overworked, overcrowded bus" to pay 150 Chinese dollars for a single copy...
New Team, New Ways. A whole structure of personal diplomacy fell apart in Washington. Harry Hopkins had superseded accredited ambassadors, spoken the President's mind more authoritatively than did the Secretary of State. At the moment of Roosevelt's death, his own men were abroad on the world...