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Newsmen in Chungking last week received from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a curt reply to their request for permission to visit the Communist area. Said the Gissimo, who is now trying to settle the differences between Chungking and Red China: The Central Government will extend them a formal invitation "when the time comes...
...Letters about this new edition have come in from such people as the Gissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Sun Yatsen, Finance Minister H. H. Kung, General Wu Techen...
...Gissimo's Minister of War, bespectacled, anti-Communist General Ho Ying-chin, told New York Times Correspondent Brooks Atkinson: "There will be no civil war. . . . The Generalissimo's plan to solve the Chinese Communist problem by pacific and political means is progressing satisfactorily with every chance of succeeding...
Said China's Gissimo: "When President Roosevelt asked my views [of Japan] I frankly replied: 'It is my opinion that all Japanese militarists must be wiped out . . . [but] the question [of Japan's postwar government] can better be left to the awakened and repentant Japanese people to decide for themselves.' I also said 'if the Japanese people should rise in revolution to punish their warmongers and overthrow their militarists' government, we should respect their spontaneous will and allow them to choose their own form of government.' Mr. Roosevelt fully approved of my idea...
...General has only one ambition: to beat Japan. He well knew what Roosevelt, Churchill, the Gissimo meant when they said this week that "serious and prolonged operations" would be necessary (see p. 32). Chennault's hatred of the Jap is deep and fierce. He broods over his hard task, listens sympathetically when his officers say: "The way to kill flies is to pour gasoline on maggots where they breed. Flyswatter stuff isn't going to win the war." Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they...