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In the morning we set out once more in the heat on the long road back. Chungking radio was telling of victories on Saipan, at Minsk, in Italy, in France. All we had to tell about was an obscure campaign in an unknown valley and the suffering of a sick...
For five long years rumors of China's imminent collapse have been thick as tea leaves on the bottom of a drained teapot. Last week they were thicker than ever. China's ragged army of rifleman and grenade-throwers had fought a critical campaign under appalling hardships (see...
Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They...
¶ Radio Saigon is the most puzzling station heard in Chungking. Its puppet personnel seem unable to decide what side they are on-especially since the Second Front in Normandy. The voice of one announcer, Jacques Chateau, "reminds you of an accordion . . . full of mashed potatoes." Another specialty is a...
¶ Radio Berlin, which occasionally reaches Chungking, recently stopped its boasting and has settled for nostalgic U.S. dance records and innocuous chit-chat by a pleasant female voice.