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Alighting from the plane in Chungking, panama in hand, he shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and a battery of China's top diplomats. Then he was led to the 1939 Cadillac where Mme. Chiang awaited him. On the way to the car, a white-gloved brass band...
Bright & early next morning, wearing two wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America...
The New Dealer. Next day Henry Wallace pulled on black rubbers and sloshed happily about the water-soaked rice fields 50 miles outside Chungking. Avidly he discussed new strains of disease-resistant rice, the intricacies of upping rice production. He also heard a polite suggestion by Agriculture Minister H. L...
Across the beautiful barren badlands of northwestern China, past sinkholes, chasms and occasional green valleys, jounced six foreign correspondents, ten Chinese journalists and five alert representatives of Chungking's Ministry of Information.
Fortress Town. The visit to Kenanpo was a side trip on the way to Yenan, Communist China's capital in the province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the...