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For the biggest vacancy-Ambassador to China-the President had made a choice, but would not announce it until China approved. The dopesters' best guess: ramrod-straight Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now in Chungking on a special Presidential mission.
Fingers Crossed. U.S. Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, in Chungking only a few weeks as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's successor, sized up the situation as serious but not irreparable. Said Wedemeyer: the Japanese are using a well-trained, well-equipped army in China led by "a very able commander...
More than ever before, China's future seemed to hang on the fighting in north Burma. As always, China's great need was supply; in north Burma this week there was hope that soon a small part of the need would be filled. If Chinese soldiers south of...
Now, more than ever, the Road was a military "must." The Japanese, with unbroken communications from Manchuria to the South China Sea, were bulging westward. With the capture of Ishan they ousted the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force from another airstrip. Under personal command of scrawny, high-powered Field Marshal Shunroku...
In Chungking this week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took the step that all friends of China had hoped for-he moved to strengthen his Government.