Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese know Dr. Shuhsi Hsu. He has been needling them since long before the invasion of Manchuria. He has written 17 volumes on Far Eastern Affairs, which have rebutted Japanese misrepresentations from Geneva to Washington. Western nations have learned by now that when Dr. Hsu speaks he knows what he is talking about. They also know that he speaks the truth as he sees it. Last week Dr. Hsu spoke again...
...Government official, but as a world citizen, a Christian, a Doctor of Philosophy of Columbia University, a member of the original "Sworn Society" of the Chinese Revolution and as an authority on China, Dr. Hsu foresaw the possibility of a Chinese collapse...
...China will fight and fight to the end regardless of consequences," he said. But the Chinese will to fight does not mean that China cannot be strangled to death by blockade. Dr. Hsu's thesis...
...United Nations will face terrific odds in defeating Japan. Neither a strategy based on island-to-island conquest in the South Pacific, nor one based on the remote hope of being able to mount an attack via Rus-sian Siberia, is sound. (If Russia declares war, says Dr. Hsu, Japan can easily cut the lifeline of the Trans-Siberian railway, and has consistently kept an approximate 25% preponderance of troops facing the Russians.) Therefore United Nations strategy will call for a huge armada of ships and millions of men if China cannot be used as an attack base...
...Hunger. Not from Dr. Hsu himself but in reports from China there was documentation last week for the Hsu thesis. The Casablanca conference decision to demand the unconditional surrender of Japan as well as Germany and Italy allayed some Chinese fears that the Pacific theater might be allowed to degenerate into a stalemate peace. The fact that China was kept informed of military decisions proved that China was not forgotten. But the fact that China was not invited to attend left a sour taste...