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Ever since the days of the Flying Tigers, it had seemed to the embattled Chinese that when a miracle had to be worked, U.S. aviators were the men to work it. At war's end, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek asked the Army Air Forces to work one more. To implement the policy of getting National Government troops to places where they were needed to take Jap surrenders, the A.A.F. took over a massive task: to fly several armies to the east and north...
...last week the divisions trained and equipped by the C.C.C. were playing another role-one equally important to China's destiny. They were the spearheads thrust by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into North China and Manchuria to accept the Japanese surrender and to meet the military challenge of the Chinese Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). They may well become the decisive factor in their nation's civil...
...commanders in China were perfectly aware that they were carrying out the U.S. Government's pledges to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They also knew that Washington took the orders to stay out of "fratricidal strife" very seriously, and that they might be in trouble both with Washington and with the uninformed U.S. people if Americans got killed in the process. Up to this week, none had been killed by Chinese fire...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies, moving to restore Central Government authority above the Yellow River, had collided with Communist forces moving from their strongholds in the same region...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ear still to the ground and still a little hard of hearing, let it be known that he wanted Barcelona newspapers to stop calling him Caudillo (Chief). The preferred handle hereafter: "His Excellency the Chief of State...