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...Chungking, Gissimo Chiang Kai-shek is as famous for his timing as a Swiss watch. But last week, at the moment when he made this statement, the news seemed to shout that he had his schedule of optimism all mixed...
Apologia for Optimism. The Gissimo had his reasons: the day he made his statement (but, significantly, the day before it was announced) three top-ranking U.S. generals-Brereton of the U.S. Air Forces in India, Chennault of the A.V.G., Stilwell of Burma-met with the Gissimo in Chungking. Two of them have long been strongly pro-Chinese; two of them are airmen. What they said was not announced, but obviously they discussed U.S. air aid to China. The next day, informed sources in Chungking were saying: "Swarms of American bomber and fighter planes are coming to China...
...Gissimo had other signs of awakening U.S. interest in China. His brother-in-law T. V. Soong signed with Secretary Hull a long-range economic agreement, for post-war as well as wartime assistance. President Roosevelt warned the Japs on the use of gas (see col. 1). Wendell Willkie and many another bystander came out for immediate aid for China...
...General Stilwell said he intended to go back to China and talk things over with Gissimo Chiang soon...
...were still fighting the Jap in Burma, or had filtered back into China, or had disintegrated. Unspoken in India (and unanswered in the U.S. early this week) was the question: Why did Uncle Joe Stilwell leave the troops he commanded? Was it on orders from Washington? Was it at Gissimo Chiang's request?* Was it on his own authority, because the job of commanding Chinese troops who had commanders of their own was too embarrassing...