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...case, its current editorials calmly discuss recent primary results--in terms of a voter rebellion against the Democratic New Deal and Casaristic elements in the groundswell for Eisenhower. Other editorials criticize President Truman for allowing his loyalty to General Marshall to overide professions of sympathy with Chiang Kai-shek, and complain that the current Wage Stabilization program has union leanings...
...Among Lattimore's governmental assignments: President Franklin Roosevelt's personal emissary to Chiang Kai-shek (1941-42), head of the OWI Pacific operations (1942-44), traveler with Vice President Henry Wallace in Soviet Siberia and China (1944), co-writer of the Pauley Mission Report on Japan (1946), participant in State's conference on China policy...
Even such old friends of the Chinese Nationalists as Congressman Walter Judd and Senator William Knowland were shaken last August by a new outcry of corruption against the Chiang Kai-shek government. The attack came from two officers serving with the Chinese Air Force Mission in Washington-Lieut. General P. T. Mow and his chief aide, Colonel V. S. Hsiang. Their superiors in Formosa had asked them to account for $19 million entrusted to them for military procurement. Publicly refusing to do so, they declared that they were being persecuted by Nationalist thugs and thieves. Somehow, their version...
...Churchill said, "there is no change in our policy. Nothing could be more foolish than for the armies of the U.S. or the U.N. to become engulfed in the vast areas of China," he continued, and "few adventures could be less successful or fruitful than for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to plunge on to the mainland." As a closing shot, he said: "The prospects of a truce being reached and respected in Korea will depend to a large extent upon the unity between Great Britain and the U.S.," on "all who seek to weaken or divide us being repulsed...
...facts were on Tsiang's side. In May 1945, Harry Hopkins, in Moscow to see Stalin, cabled President Truman: "Stalin . . . made categorical statement that he would do everything he could to promote unification of China under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek." Then in August 1945, Stalin signed with Chiang's China a 30-year friendship treaty pledging that Soviet "support . . . will go exclusively to the National [Chiang] government...