Word: chungkingers
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In Chungking the spring dawn was milky when an MP on the graveyard shift picked up the ringing phone in U.S. Army Headquarters. At first he heard no voice on the other end; then a San Francisco broadcast coming over the phone line made clear to him why his informant...
It was 6 a.m. in Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply...
Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's...
In selecting the delegation the Generalissimo apparently had cupped an ear toward friends and advisers in the U.S.A significant part of the credit for better U.S.-Chinese relations was given to shrewd, big-hearted Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now Ambassador to China. Last week he was in Washington, making...
Toward Stability. Last week, too, a new attack opened on China's desperate economic front. One evening a silvery Douglas transport came down at a Chungking airfield. Out stepped its chief passenger, the Generalissimo, and a bulky hitchhiker, onetime OPA Boss Leon Henderson. The American, en route from Europe...