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...State Department) sounded quite different. In its account of the China hearings, USIS gave a niggling 17 lines to Wedemeyer, a fat 68 to Willard Thorp and William Walton Butterworth Jr., State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China, either, about Wedemeyer's recommendation of military...
Throughout Asia, men contemplated a new year of fierce breezes. India charged Pakistan with a threat to world peace (see Col. 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek predicted that the Chinese Communists would be beaten by the end of the year; Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung hooted that 1948 would bring still more gains for the Reds. A Shanghai editorial writer said humbly: "We can only pray...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. At no time in history has a man defended the liberties of so many with so little...
...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
...claimed that this indoctrination course changed the minds of 90% of the Communists brought in. How did he do it? First, he said, with good treatment and "a warm heart." There are also big signs painted in white-and-blue characters which cry "Honor the National Government-Obey the Generalissimo!," pamphlets explaining the three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen's earlier revolution, patriotic songs and U.S. propaganda posters...