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Force of Destiny. As chief political adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, when Vinegar Joe was chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942, Davies followed the line that Chiang's regime was hopelessly corrupt and doomed, that the Chinese Communists had "mass support" and were "the force destined to control China." Soldier Stilwell took the Davies position. In a 1944 memorandum, Davies wrote: "We should not now abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must...
...called "China Lobby." He had issued his lookout's cry once before, during the MacArthur hearing, when the Republicans were blasting the Administration's Far East policy. McMahon had countered with dark charges of the sinister efforts of a "China Lobby" to draw the U.S. into Chiang Kai-shek's camp...
...Urged U.S. support for a Chiang Kai-shek attack on the mainland...
...Require use of Chiang Kai-shek's forces...
...before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance, sanitation and overall reform, it sounded like simple sloth. Faced with cultural mysteries, Westerners concocted superficial myths. The big myth about the Chinese: that they don't know how to "get things done." Upshot of such reasoning: Chiang Kai-shek's government was scuttled while otherwise hardheaded Westerners (e.g., "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell) sang the praises of Mao Tse-tung's "efficient" Communists...