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...military chief in China, 48-year-old General Wedemeyer had promptly presented his defense plan ("simple and I hope sound") to Chiang Kaishek. Five days later, without revealing its details, he was able to announce that it had been accepted by the harried Generalissimo. Chinese forces were now moving into place to meet the Japanese westward drive, would soon prove whether "Al" Wedemeyer's plan was sound as well as simple...
...Chungking this week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took the step that all friends of China had hoped for-he moved to strengthen his Government...
Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
Only visionaries or political infants supposed that Generalissimo Chiang's reorganization of his Government would instantly change the course of the war, now going heavily against the Chinese, or would immediately remove all the causes of the criticism which has been leveled at Chungking and Chiang. But Chiang had shown new resolution at a moment when even some of his friends had begun to wonder...
Reform of Production. Almost simultaneously with his governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...