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Chen Pu-lei (Gissimo's secretary) : chun...
...post-war world, China-through its most potent organ, the party -endorsed the program-outlined by the Gissimo to the New York Herald Tribune forum promising post-war cooperation...
...From India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar answered a condescending harangue of Winston Churchill. From England the Archbishop of Canterbury raised his voice against privilege. And from China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a compelling message this week to the New York Herald Tribune's forum on world affairs. Wrote the Gissimo...
Then the heavy program began. Willkie was driven through Chungking's crowded, cheering streets. He visited a meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...
...would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...