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Lieut General Wedemeyer has always been antiCommunist. He was anti-Communist during his earlier mission to China as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944 et seq.). His report on the Chinese situation could not be anything but antiCommunist, and probably favored U.S. aid to China. If so, it was big news to both countries. What (or who), Americans wondered last week, was holding up its publication...
...nine months the U.S. had had no China policy beyond indecisive hostility and righteous advice for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. From behind the scenes came rumors that the U.S. was preparing to pull out of China and rest its Asiatic defense on Japan and the Philippine Islands. Ostensibly, the Wedemeyer report was designed to help George Marshall decide what, if anything, to do next. The choice was between aid to China or abandonment of her 400 million people to the threat of Communism...
...Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall...
...Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
Prescription for Austerity. One man who publicly neither complained nor scoffed was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Both the Government and the Kuomintang, he told the San Min Chu I Youth Corps, were suffering from "corruption and deterioration of spirit...