Word: hu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors of war-weariness and low morale in China are sheer nonsense," Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States said yesterday before his speech at the Faculty Club last night. "China is weary in a physical sense, yes we have been fighting for over five and a half years, but morale is as good as it has ever been...
...Hu Shih, besides serving as Ambassador to this country, is probably the greatest scholar in modern China, and will long be remembered as one of the men who did most to bring China into its swiftly developing importance in world affairs...
...Chinese, on the whole, do not feel slighted because Change Kai-Shek was not invited to the Casablanca conference, according to Dr. Hu. In the official statement issued recently, Dr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Foreign Affairs, revealed that China had been kept fully informed of the proceedings of the meeting and was well satisfied with the plans agreed upon...
...This reflects the general opinion among the Chinese," Dr. Hu said. "Not only would it have meant a long trip for the Generalissimo at a time when he should have been on the home front, but the Chinese well realize that the conference was necessarily concerned with the war in the West...
...reply to a question on Lend-Lease supplies sent to China, Dr. Hu replied that he had no doubt that both the British and the Americans had done their best under the severe limitations existing. "It is difficult for the layman to judge the problem," he said. "The situation cannot be radically altered without a large scale land, air and naval campaign against the Japanese in Burma...