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For the moment, at least, China was spared the ultimate in disaster. The Japanese drive northwest into the desolate province of Kweichow last week faltered, then ebbed back into neighboring Kwangsi. Either the enemy's swift advance had outrun its supply, or China had somehow found new strength to...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been fighting from the days when, as a young officer, he had helped Sun Yat-sen organize China's democratic revolution. He had fought the war lords, he had fought the Communists, he had fought the Japanese. When it was no longer possible to...
The result showed at once at the front. Last week, with the Japanese armies 250 miles from Chungking, a Chinese army stopped the Japanese drive (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS).
The Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother...
Emily's latest book is not only a "partial autobiography," but also a jampacked grabbag of the personalities and private lives of nearly everyone she met in China, from Asiatic prostitutes to European taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold...