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...last General Sun Li-jen kicked off to clear the road to the junction with the paved Burma highway at Mongyu. We went up to watch. An infantry company lay waiting on a hill a mile from the Pinghai pocket, while below two tank units rolled back & forth through the Jap positions, machine-gunning and chewing up the banana thickets. Then Chinese infantry groped in to hunt for snipers. It was good to see these Chinese troops. They had fed well for a full year, their uniforms were clean, their helmets sat jauntily on their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: LINKED AT LAST | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most fundamental situations. They should help soldiers to obey a Chinese maxim which Fang loves: Chien shih-mo jen shuo shih-mo hua (Whomever you see, talk his language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chinese Quick | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply. Tried out by British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's daring Burma raiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: On the Plains of Hukawng | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...officer of General Li Tsung-jen, Chen needled the Japanese so spectacularly that they made a special expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Chen's Head | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Joseph Szigeti was born 48 years ago in Budapest. Fiddler Jenö Hubay taught him; Fiddler Joseph Joachim, the 19th Century's greatest, pronounced him a comer. He made his debut at 13. Szigeti has spent most of his musical life in London and Paris-where he had to leave most of his possessions in a bombproof shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Szigeti on the Air | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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