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Last week at Hankow, to which Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went from Nanking, the Chinese authorities permitted United Press's Jack Belden to send a dispatch with this lead: "The Chinese Communist Party, already dominant in the coalition which forms the present Central Chinese Government, tonight extended its control to three more of the nation's defense areas." Mr. Belden went on to record "a general tendency which would give officials of the former Chinese Soviet Government . . . domination of almost the entire conduct of the struggle'' of China v. Japan. This was saying...
...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
...Generalissimo was overwhelmed and overruled by Chinese public opinion. He was obliged to lead China to certain defeat. Most amazing was the outward confidence of every public act and word of the Man & Wife of the Year-particularly the tone of her cables from Nanking to the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 23). Until the evacuation of Nanking, Mme Chiang was writing about how "my air force" was going to bomb Tokyo, carefully sparing "the women and children...
...spot to which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open...
This week an Associated Press correspondent "somewhere in the Yangtze Valley" with Generalissimo & Mme Chiang was permitted to flash that influenza had bedded the Wife of the Year, quoted the Man of the Year as saying: "Tell America to have complete confidence in us. The tide of battle is turning and victory eventually will be ours...