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The cheers could be heard around the world. Franklin Roosevelt's victory was good news in London, in Moscow, in Paris, in Chungking. It was good news in many a humbler foreign village which the President, geography-lover though he is, had never heard of.
In Chungking, T. V. Soong, Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law and Foreign Minister, issued a written statement: "The recall of General Stilwell was entirely a matter of personality. . . ."
Off to Chungking. As a soldier, General Stilwell had reached a hero's height since the grim spring of 1942 when he retreated through Burma and marched over the mountains into India with his famous summary of an inglorious campaign: "We got a hell of a beating." Since then...
From Chungking came censor-blurred reports of "Vinegar Joe's" further doings. There were reports of a new training plan for the Chinese Army. There were reports of more supplies to be sent into China over the Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were...
In September of this year, when China's military situation was at its grimmest in five years, Stilwell came back to Chungking to see his chief, the Generalissimo. With him came another American soldier. Suave, worldly Major General Patrick Hurley, emissary of the White House in high diplomatic affairs...